The Albanese government doesn’t just like women, it needs them

Since their time in opposition, Labor under Anthony Albanese has made “Appealing To Women” a point of pride, a direct riposte to the famous “Women Problems” of Scott Morrison’s government.

At the same time, women voters – fickle creatures – are growing increasingly progressive, a trend observable across most Western democracies. In this Western democracy, it makes them appetising prey for the Greens and the teals.The measures are listed in the women’s budget statement – an initiative of the Morrison government, in a belated and rather reluctant response to that government’s aforementioned Women Problems.

There is also $4.3 million for the National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety and $3.9 million for the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet to “embed a focus on women’s safety across government”. For now, women must be grateful that the Commonwealth is trying to ward off their killing at the hands of intimates.

One of Labor’s first acts in government was to boost the childcare subsidy – a major workforce participation measure – by about $5 billion. Or as the budget papers phrase it – “additional activities to strengthen the payment and accuracy of the child care subsidy program”.This includes $12.5 million over the forward estimates to provide period products to rural and remote First Nations communities and $6 million to pre-term and early-term birth in First Nations communities.

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