My Commitment
Working to make things better for everyone in our community for many years has been the motivation at the heart of my work.
I strive to be a Parliamentary representative who provides a voice of leadership on women’s issues and fights for a Tasmania that is an exemplar of equity, safety and opportunity for everyone.
As the member for Nelson, I am committed to applying a gender lens to all legislation that comes before me in the Legislative Council.
Priorities for strengthening gender equality
- Promoting women’s workforce participation, including addressing the gender pay gap.
- Ensuring women’s financial security, including women in part-time or casual insecure work and women’s superannuation.
- Stopping violence against women, including access to legal services, personal support and housing.
- Timely access to health services and reproductive rights.
- Addressing women’s homelessness, including access to public and social housing, better protection of tenant’s rights, more crisis housing services.
- Support for carers, including in the areas of elder care, disability care, and kinship care.
Achievements:
- My motion to introduce an analytical Budget Gender Impact Statement as part of the State Budget papers was passed, with the first gender budget statement delivered in 2022-23.
- In 2021, I called for an independent review into the Tasmanian parliament workplace culture. This was in effort to make a proactive and preventative approach to harassment or wrongdoing in the Tasmanian parliamentary workplace.
- In 2022 the ‘Motion for Respect – Report into Workplace Culture in the Tasmanian Ministerial and Parliamentary Services’ Report was released. You can read it here.
Gender lens on Speeches in Reply to the State Budget
Question – Surgery on Intersex Children
Motion – Gender Responsive Budgeting
Mr President, I rise to speak to the motion under my name, No. 7 on the Notice Paper. This motion focuses upon the role of and the need for gender-responsive budgeting and a gender budget impact assessment – a public policy tool that I and others here have previously called for and raised on many occasions in this place. However, this debate might be the first opportunity provided to this Chamber to consider formally such an initiative and its potential contribution to our state.
