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With its 2017 budget the government is still discouraging women

  • Written by Helen Hodgson, Associate Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University
imageRecent figures show that women are adversely effected by the 2017 federal budget.AAP Image/Tracey Nearmy

The 2017 federal budget was pitched as a fair budget, but much depends on your definition of fairness. Reviewing the policies through a gender lens, there is little to address the entrenched economic disadvantage experienced by women.

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