Senator the Hon Katy Gallagher

  • Minister for Finance
  • Minister for Women
  • Minister for the Public Service

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Pilot program to drive gender equality in Australian workplaces

The Albanese Government is supporting new ways to help make workplaces safer, more respectful and more equitable for women in traditionally male-dominated sectors, through…

Release type: Joint Media Release

Date: 19 December 2024

Ministers:

  • Senator the Hon Katy Gallagher
  • Senator the Hon Murray Watt

New program launches to support parents into work

Parent Pathways - a new service that provides personalised pre-employment support to eligible parents and carers of young children - has been launched by the Albanese Government.

Release type: Joint Media Release

Date: 2 November 2024

Ministers:

  • Senator the Hon Murray Watt
  • Senator the Hon Katy Gallagher
  • The Hon Amanda Rishworth MP

Driving structural and cultural change to build women's careers

The Australian Government is calling for organisations to apply for the Building Women’s Careers Program partnership grants.

Release type: Joint Media Release

Date: 28 October 2024

Ministers:

  • Senator the Hon Katy Gallagher
  • The Hon Andrew Giles MP

Paid family and domestic violence leave helping workers cope in crisis

An independent statutory review of the Albanese Government’s paid family and domestic violence leave has found the program is succeeding in supporting the financial security of those escaping or…

Release type: Joint Media Release

Date: 9 October 2024

Ministers:

  • Senator the Hon Katy Gallagher
  • The Hon Amanda Rishworth MP
  • Senator the Hon Murray Watt

Next steps to ensuring fair pay and conditions for working women

The Albanese Government is supporting an historic review of the undervaluation of wages in feminised industries, in the next step towards reducing the gender pay gap. 

Release type: Joint Media Release

Date: 30 September 2024

Ministers:

  • Senator the Hon Katy Gallagher
  • Senator the Hon Murray Watt

Joint media release: Gender pay gap drops to historic low

New data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shows the national gender pay gap is the lowest on record - today falling to 11.5 per cent from 12 per cent in November…

Release type: Joint Media Release

Date: 15 August 2024

Ministers:

  • The Hon Anthony Albanese MP
  • Senator the Hon Katy Gallagher
  • Senator the Hon Murray Watt

Respect@Work: A better standard for all Australian workplaces

Today the Australian Human Rights Commission’s new power commences to investigate and enforce compliance of the positive duty on organisations and businesses to eliminate sexual harassment in the…

Release type: Joint Media Release

Date: 12 December 2023

Ministers:

  • The Hon Mark Dreyfus KC MP
  • Senator the Hon Katy Gallagher
  • The Hon Tony Burke MP

New pre-employment support for parents

The Albanese Labor Government will introduce a new voluntary pre-employment service for parents from 1 November 2024, to replace the former government’s Pare

Release type: Joint Media Release

Date: 7 December 2023

Ministers:

  • The Hon Tony Burke MP
  • Senator the Hon Katy Gallagher

Record women’s employment under the Albanese Labor Government

The Albanese Labor Government is getting more Australian women into full-time work than ever before, a new analysis of workforce data shows.

Release type: Joint Media Release

Date: 30 May 2023

Ministers:

  • The Hon Tony Burke MP
  • Senator the Hon Katy Gallagher

Albanese Government to scrap ParentsNext program

Women around the country have been telling us that the former Government’s ParentsNext program is punitive, counterproductive and causes harm.

Release type: Joint Media Release

Date: 5 May 2023

Ministers:

  • Senator the Hon Katy Gallagher
  • The Hon Tony Burke MP

Unemployment rate falls to 48-year low

Australia’s unemployment rate has fallen to its lowest level in 48 years - confirming the time is right to focus on higher wages, better job security and building a bigge

Release type: Joint Media Release

Date: 14 July 2022

Ministers:

  • Senator the Hon Katy Gallagher
  • The Hon Mark Butler MP