Showing posts with label gender imbalance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gender imbalance. Show all posts

Tuesday 2 October 2018

This Liberal politician thinks the national electorate is composed of gullible fools


What Australian Prime Minister and Liberal MP for Cook Scott Morrison is failing to point out in that tweet is that these statistics were released by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency

An Australian Government statutory agency created by the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012 which is a piece of legislation passed during the period that Labor MP Julia Gillard was prime minister.


The reporting requirements under the Act apply to all non-public sector employers with 100 or more employees. Although smaller employers do not need to report, it is an explicit function of the Agency to provide education and advice to all employers – large and small.

Morrison failed to point out that the 14.5% he is bragging about is a national average, with most states having a lower gender pay gap percentage. Although women living in West Australia have to endure an eye watering 24.9% less in their pay packets than men.

He was also careful to ignore the fact that in November 2014 under an Abbott Coalition Government (in which Morrison was a cabinet minister) the national gender pay gap average was 18.5% - the highest it has ever been.

In addition Morrison neglects to mention that in Australia; The full-time total remuneration gender pay gap based on WGEA data is 22.4%, meaning men working full-time earn nearly $26,527 a year more than women working full-time.

However, what is unforgivable about Scott Morrison's tweet is that the Liberal Party objected to the bill which created the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012 and Morrison himself tried to vote the bill down at 16:11 on 18 March 2012 according to Hansard.

Thursday 23 January 2014

Is Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott desperately avoiding being photographed under this particular art work?


World Economic Forum art work in January 2014 at Davos, Switzerland.

Top row, third from left - former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard whom current Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott never managed to beat at a federal election.





















Artist: F Morales-de la Cruz @fmdelac 

BACKGROUND

Gillard labels Abbott sexist and misogynist on the floor of the House of Representatives on 9 October 2012

World Economic Forum The Global Gender Gap Report 2013