QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Ms PLIBERSEK (Sydney—Minister for Social Services) (14:58): I want to thank the member for Dickson for her terrific question. I know, when she's out doorknocking, which she does a lot of, many families that have received paid parental leave in her electorate raised this with her. One thousand seven hundred parents in her electorate, just last year, received paid parental leave.

This morning, as the Treasurer and the Minister for Aged Care and Seniors said, we were out at the Uniting Care Mirinjani—which is a fantastic facility—with Sharon and her team, as well as the member for Bean. Sharon, of course, heads a workplace that is mostly female and that takes care of older Australians when they need it most. From tomorrow, this fantastic group of staff will receive a range of terrific benefits, including higher wages, including tax cuts and including payday super, and, of course, they'll see increases in their family tax benefit tomorrow as well, if they've got kids.

If they have a baby, from tomorrow onwards, they'll of course, receive the full six months of paid parental leave—more time at home. They'll receive more money, over $1,000 a week, now. More people will be eligible, and the scheme is more flexible.

Thanks to our changes since coming to government, the Albanese Labor government has more than doubled the entitlement for paid parental leave. It's around $30,000 now. We know that is particularly important in female dominated industries like aged care where we've also seen the benefits of our changes to industrial relations, which has meant we've got the lowest gender pay gap in history because of the changes this government has made.

In industries like aged care, you also see a lot of casual workers and a lot of part-time workers who are women. They, of course, also benefit from paid parental leave, as long as they meet the work test, and that's very important to know. Of course, we know that those opposite have been completely all over the place on that.

The shadow treasurer disappears every time I talk about paid parental leave. He's gone again! Of course, One Nation is only 50 per cent here.

We've got one of them but not the other one. What happens when the Liberals and One Nation gang up on paid parental leave when they both have such odd— Opposition members interjecting— Ms PLIBERSEK: Oh, they support it. The shadow treasurer doesn't.

Since 2017, the leader of One Nation has been saying that women get themselves pregnant for the money. The idea of One Nation and the Liberals ganging up on this is a disaster. (Time expired)