Labor puts equality for women at the centre of what we do.
That’s why we’ve made Australia’s biggest ever investment in women’s economic equality.
• Expanding Paid Parental Leave to 26 weeks – or 6 months – by 2026 and adding superannuation to government paid parental leave.
• Delivering historic pay rises for workers in the female-dominated aged care and early childhood education and care sectors.
• Delivering reforms to help the gender pay gap drop to the lowest level on record.
• Created more than half a million new jobs for women, and lifted wages.
• Delivering cheaper child care for over a million families.
• Supporting economic security so women don’t have to choose between poverty and violence – with 10 days paid domestic violence leave, the $5,000 Leaving Violence Payments, expanding the single parent payment, and cost of living support.
• Making large companies publicly report their gender pay gaps and banning pay secrecy clauses.
• Extending the single parenting payment to help single parents – who are mostly women – balance caring responsibilities and work.
• Releasing Working for Women – Australia’s first national strategy to achieve gender equality.
• Supporting initiatives to improve sport participation for women and girls, including with $200 million delivered through the Play Our Way program.
• Accelerating action and delivering record investment of over $4 billion to end violence against women within a generation – including big new investments in frontline and legal services.
• Cracking down on perpetrators of domestic violence with new approaches to identify high risk perpetrators early and intervene to stop violence escalating.
• Major investments in crisis accommodation and homes for women and children escaping violence.
• Changing laws to make Family Law safer for women and children.
• Acting on all 55 recommendations of the Respect@Work report – including accessible and effective new protections to stop sexual harassment at work.
• Boosting consent and respectful relationships education to help prevent violence.
• Making sure that Australian women suffering from endometriosis and complex gynaecological conditions have access to longer specialist consultations, covered under Medicare.
• Established 22 endometriosis and pelvic pain specialist clinics, across every state and territory to help women with endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) get the care they need. And will add a further 11 clinics, expanding them to provide specialist support for menopause.
• Made it cheaper to see a gynaecologist and easier to spend more time with your GP and expanded the support your midwife can provide.
• Added key medicines for treating endometriosis, breast cancer and uterine cancer to the PBS and made RSV vaccine free for pregnant women.
• Half a billion dollars for women’s health to deliver more choice, lower costs and better healthcare. Including cheaper contraceptives, more endometriosis and pelvic pain clinics, and more specialist support for women experiencing menopause.
• Establishing a National Women’s Health Advisory Council to address stark differences in the health outcomes for women and girls.
