QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator GALLAGHER (Australian Capital Territory—Minister for Finance, Minister for the Public Service, Minister for Women, Minister for Government Services and Manager of Government Business in the Senate) (14:05): I thank Senator Grogan for the question and for all the work that she does, along with all of my women colleagues in the Labor Party—and not just women but all party members in our caucus room—to progress gender equality.

The Albanese Labor government is delivering real change for women and their families with a suite of cost-of-living measures that start today, including more tax cuts coming in on 1 July 2026 and a full six months of Paid Parental Leave. We're also strengthening Medicare and making all of those investments in women's health that have been so important and so well taken up by Australian women.

In relation to our tax cuts, as I said yesterday, our plan is to deliver a series of five tax cuts. Two have already been delivered. We've got more coming next year: the instant tax deduction and of course the Working Australians Tax Offset.

We've expanded Paid Parental Leave to the full six months, helping new parents spend more time at home with their youngest family members. Thanks to our changes here, supported by the Labor government, families accessing the full entitlement will receive almost $30,000 across the Paid Parental Leave scheme. This is around double the entitlement that was available to families before Labor came to government.

We're also backing in the minimum-wage and award-wage increases that also start today, both in our submission to the Fair Work Commission's Annual Wage Review and also through the direct investments that we have made into care workers—in particular aged-care workers and early educators working in the childcare system—who had been left without earning adequate wages and with no government, prior to our government coming to the table, prepared to pay for— (Time expired) The PRESIDENT: Senator Grogan, first supplementary?