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Australia’s COVID recession hurt women more than men, and not only in job numbers. With schools and childcare centres closed, many women who remained in paid work had no choice but to take on more unpaid work, effectively working double shifts. Yet much of the government’s budget response involved high-viz vests and hard hats. These gender differences would have been apparent to the government if it had run its policy ideas through a “gender lens” – a process that used to be built int...

Health by Jade Gailberger 5th May 2021 5:20 AM Australia is at risk of damaging its global standing if it maintains its controversial closed border strategy, economists say. The federal governments tough travel ban on India is the latest temporary restriction aimed at quashing the threat of overseas COVID-19 outbreaks. But ahead of next weeks budget, CEDA senior economist Gabriela DSouza has warned the draconian measures could ha...

Health by Jade Gailberger 5th May 2021 5:20 AM Australia is at risk of damaging its global standing if it maintains its controversial closed border strategy, economists say. The federal governments tough travel ban on India is the latest temporary restriction aimed at quashing the threat of overseas COVID-19 outbreaks. But ahead of next weeks budget, CEDA senior economist Gabriela DSouza has warned the draconian measures could ha...

Health by Jade Gailberger 5th May 2021 5:20 AM Australia is at risk of damaging its global standing if it maintains its controversial closed border strategy, economists say. The federal governments tough travel ban on India is the latest temporary restriction aimed at quashing the threat of overseas COVID-19 outbreaks. But ahead of next weeks budget, CEDA senior economist Gabriela DSouza has warned the draconian measures could ha...

A grey war with China? Good morning, early birds. "High likelihood" of physical conflict with China according to one of Australias top military commanders, and chief medical officer Paul Kelly has warned the Morrison government that Australians stranded in India could die. Its the news you need to know, with Chris Woods. Peter Dutton and Home Affairs Secretary Mike Pezzullo, Adam Findlay, told special forces last year that China is engaged in “grey zone” warfare against Australia — i...

Advertisement “I couldn’t even get a car loan in 1962,” recalls Wendy McCarthy, AO. “I wanted a Mini Minor to drive to my job as a teacher and I remember the bank manager, he said: ‘Your father will need to be guarantor.’ “I said: ‘Well, my father’s dead.’ He said: ‘Have you got a brother? Maybe he could do it?’ I said: ‘Yes, he’s 12’.” Wendy McCarthy remembers being unable to get a car loan because she lacked a mal...

It’s been more than a decade since Australia’s first and only female leader came to power. In the corridors of power in the capital Canberra, however, it feels there’s been little progress in the march for equality.

Gender pay gap improves as more men take on low-paid work Feb 25, 2021 – 9.32pm Share Australian women working full-time are paid on average $242.20 a week less than men - a gap that has improved, albeit slowly and mostly due to labour market shifts rather than progress on equality. Women working full-time earned on average $1562 in a week, while male full-time workers were paid $1804.20, data from the federal government’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency shows. If you’re an Australian wo...

Women were let go in greater numbers during COVID, now they face being offered lower-paid roles to return to work ThuThursday 11 FebFebruary 2021 at 5:12pm Melinda Rodd says she feels like a year of her life has been stolen after she lost her job. ( Print text only Cancel Melinda Rodd was all set to begin her first day as a travelling business development manager for a health products company when COVID-19 hit. Key points: 98,000 fewer university-educated women had work in May last year compare...