Speeches

    Women, men, work and family

    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...

    NSW Family and Community Services: From managing disadvantage to breaking it

    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...