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As flagged earlier, Australian Council of Trade Unions president Michele O’Neil is holding a press conference where she’s calling on the Albanese government to commit to closing the gender wage gap.
We have a very expensive, inaccessible early childhood education and care system. And we had the second worst paid parental leave scheme in the developed world. The other critical issue ... for women workers is that so many of them are excluded from bargaining. We’ve got a bargaining system that only covers one in seven workers.
Former Australian of the Year and sexual assault survivor Grace Tame says she told police multiple times about threats she received online from her abuser, but “no changes have come about”. “It’s really disheartening and disillusioning when you feel like you are banging your head against a wall when you’re trying to draw attention to a menacing predator.”The Tasmanian sexual assault survivor told ABC presenter Virginia Trioli that police communication “hasn’t been great”.
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