WEL has submitted responses to the Productivity Commission’s draft Report on Paid Maternity, Paternity and Parental Leave – Paid Parental Leave: Support for Parents with Newborn Children Draft inquiry report.
Paid Maternity, Paternity and Parental Leave
Promoting and protecting women’s human rights in Australia
June 18, 2009
WEL is one of 39 organisations that has endorsed a submission newly put to the National Human Rights Consultation currently under way.
The Consultation offers an opportunity to consider not only how, as a society, we treat vulnerable people but also to what extent we are prepared to put in place institutional protections and to eliminate the systemic power imbalances that make people vulnerable to abuse and mistreatment in the first place.
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A Feminist View on Improving the Tax System
The terms of reference for the Henry Tax Review call for consideration of the community’s aspirations for the type of society that Australia should become over the next two decades and beyond, and which key features should inform or drive the future design of the Australian tax‑transfer system,
Eva Cox has put a feminist viewpoint on these issues into an article for the Centre for Policy Development. Eva’s article, ‘The ethical basis of a good tax system’, can be read here.
