Mark Latham’s performance on Weekend dawn was a textbook demonstration of a ‘manologue’With the upcoming election and in the week of Malcolm Turnbull’s first budget as prime minister,there’s a lot to talk approximately in terms of his government’s policy impact on women. It’s highly unlikely Abbott-era cuts to community legal centres that serve women experiencing family violence will be reversed. Women’s healthcare is threatened with the removal of subsidies that incentivise bulk billing, raising the price of mammograms and Pap smears. Even Scott Morrison’s suggestion of tax cuts for people on “average wages” of $80000 a year is gender exclusive: average female full-time earnings are only $69846. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com