Women’s Economic Equality Taskforce chair Sam Mostyn, who was appointed to advise the government on new policies, has said the budget announced on Tuesday was a strong one for women.
Before we turn to Treasurer Jim Chalmers, the opposition’s Sussan Ley and Angus Taylor have spoken about the budget.
“We had what people recall as the V-shaped recovery. We set up record lows and obviously tax revenues“We managed the economy well in order that we came out strongly, and we have and in theHer colleague Angus Taylor was on Nine’sprogram and said the best possible support for lower income people was addressing cost-of-living pressures, lower inflation and lower interest rates.
“The minister for women and finance and the treasurer, and the expenditure review, committee of cabinet and the whole cabinet, I think has come together to say we’ll do the big heavy lifting.” “It [the budget] does a huge amount of heavy lifting ... [and] I’ve gone through and looked at all the things that are directly affecting women,” she said of the budget.
She said the rest of the figure came from looking through all the budget papers in addition to the women’s budget statement.
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