If you're interested in #DomesticViolence services being appropriately funded, does the "pink" #Budget21 do the job?
Domestic violence services funding increases by $250m per year – but is then CUT by 99%, down to just $2.3m, in 2025-26. 1/
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Domestic violence services funding increases by $250m per year – but is then CUT by 99%, down to just $2.3m, in 2025-26. 1/
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2/ So the govt either thinks #DomesticViolence will be non-existent by 2025 or the funding from 2021-2025 is a cynical political move.
3/ Alison Pennington @ak_pennington points out the "pink" bits of #Budget21 involves "small, short-term spending for women, compared with permanent & much more expensive changes announced for high-income earners & men. #auspol
4/ For me? Cynical politics from the Morrison govt on multiple levels.
Do all women wear pink, will we be suckered in by a pink cover? I don't think so.
Do all women wear pink, will we be suckered in by a pink cover? I don't think so.
5/ I'm with @ak_pennington, who writes "...this budget offers no real change to the policy settings that block women’s ability to fully work & earn", it won't "make an appreciable difference to women’s economic security, or address widening inequality"...
6/6 ...Alison Pennington goes on to say, "Pink-washing cannot hide the powerful disequalising forces that this government has set in motion.
For women, it’s short-term sweeteners, and permanent rip offs". #Budget21 #EnoughIsEnough #ListenToWomen
For women, it’s short-term sweeteners, and permanent rip offs". #Budget21 #EnoughIsEnough #ListenToWomen
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