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) (14:09): I can do that. Just to cover off, at the end of the last question I was making the point that women working full-time today are, on average, earning almost $300 more per week than they were when we came to government.

It's because of those investments we've made, but they haven't just been into wages and supporting the wage review. We've also been working around lowering the gender pay gap. We've introduced the Women's Budget Statement.

We've seen 650,000 new jobs created for women. We've done our extension of paid parental leave. And this has been reflected in Australia increasing our ranking in the international gender equality rankings from 43rd, when we came to government, to 13th on the latest ranking.

This shows that our work of driving gender equality because it's good for everybody and good for the economy is working in measurable ways that we've been focused on.