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.
