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The formidable women you won’t hear about on International Women’s Day

When culturally and linguistically communities don’t get their fair share of disability resources, women are the ones who pick up the slack.

Source: The formidable women you won’t hear about on International Women’s Day

As working women we have been short-changed. It’s not our problem alone to fix

Women are expected to happily toil away at home and in the office, only to see their salary eaten up by childcare and tax

Source: As working women we have been short-changed. It’s not our problem alone to fix | Eleni Roussos | Opinion | The Guardian

Scott Morrison’s International Women’s Day speech was… bad.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison wants us to promise something before we all go too far with this whole feminism thing. Basically, that: no men are harmed in the making of gender equality.

Delivering a speech at an International Women’s Day 2019 breakfast in Perth this morning, an event that’s designed to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women, our dear leader somehow managed to make it about the blokes.

“We want to see women rise,” he told the Chamber of Minerals and Energy. “But we don’t want to see women rise only on the basis of others doing worse.”

“We want everybody to do better,” he continued, “and we want to see the rise of women in this country to be accelerated to ensure that their overall place is maintained.”

Source: Scott Morrison’s International Women’s Day speech was… bad.

Women in work: Australia lags behind NZ, financial equality years away

Progress on workplace and financial equality for women in Australia has stalled, research shows, with advocates calling for government action.

“As long as you’ve got a disproportionate number of men in senior roles it’s very difficult to have true gender equality”

Source: Women in work: Australia lags behind NZ, financial equality years away

Australia Needs A Universal Basic Income, And We Should Start With Mothers

Women should not need access to a husband to avoid poverty.

Source: Australia Needs A Universal Basic Income, And We Should Start With Mothers | HuffPost Australia

There’s nothing woke about the sex trade

It is no secret that the sex trade is riven with misogyny. The multibillion-dollar trade is built on the pain and oppression of women and girls. Yet many on the liberal Left support this abusive industry. Even the fact that black, brown and indigenous women and girls are first in line to be bought and sold into […]

Source: There’s nothing woke about the sex trade – UnHerd

Workers making clothes for Australian brands can’t afford to eat, Oxfam reports

Women in Bangladesh and Vietnam working for Big W, Kmart, Target and Cotton On earning 51 cents an hour

Source: Workers making clothes for Australian brands can’t afford to eat, Oxfam reports | Fashion | The Guardian

ParentsNext welfare program breaches human rights, inquiry hears

Human Rights Commission tells Senate inquiry that punitive impacts of the program risk ‘entrenching poverty and inequality’

A Senate inquiry is examining the program, which places compulsory participation requirements on about 73,000 people who are receiving parenting payments, have a child between the age of six months and five, and are classified as “disadvantaged” by Centrelink. About 95% of participants are women, and most are single mothers.

Guardian Australia has revealed that about one in five participants have received a temporary payment suspension, but department officials said 82% of those did not affect the person’s income support because they had “re-engaged” before their money was due.