Despite months of advocacy from feminist economists and policy analysts, the government still does not grasp the opportunity of investing in women
What a difference seven months can make. After facing the wrath of thousands of “credible women” following last October’s federal budget, which infamously assigned a third of 1% of its spending to women’s economic security, the Morrison government is now at pains to emphasise that the 2021 budget, to be handed down on Tuesday, will deliver for women.
Quite the shift in rhetoric, after its ham-fisted attempts to defend the indefensible last year, with claims that “women drive on roads” by ministers Ann Ruston and Michaelia Cash, and that “nothing in the budget is gendered” from the prime minister’s office (which was kind of the point).
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