March 6, 2012
Speech to women stakeholders and MPs
Strangers’ Dining Room, Parliament House, on the occasion of International Women’s Day, 2012.
History
On the eve of International Women’s Day, it’s appropriate that we gather here in Parliament House. Until 1926, there were no women in Parliament - only men debated and made decisio...
November 25, 2011
When the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission released A Time to Value, our proposal for a national paid maternity leave scheme in 2002, there remained a number of outstanding issues.
It was clear from the many submissions we received that while paid maternity leave was a significant step in enabling women to better balance their paid wo...
October 25, 2011
Address to The Sydney Institute.
New Governments have a choice. They can choose business as usual, or they can choose change.
That choice was clear for the Liberal & Nationals Government elected here in NSW on the 26th of March. But when it came to the way our state cared for its most vulnerable and disadvantaged, there was no choice. We s...