Katie Gallagher

You know, if you look across housing, healthcare, the care economy more broadly, leadership, representation, decision making, violence against women and children, there isn't equality in this country yet.

And so trying to, part of the focus of the Whitman's budget statement is to

highlight that and be mindful of government being accountable for the decisions we make to explain that.

I think we've got a special envoy for men's health now playing a similar role because there's areas of men's health that

in particular, and other areas.

But in this instance, what Dan does is in men's health, where, you know, it's not equal for them either.

And we're trying to kind of have responses to that.

But the women's budget statement is partly because we've been trying to drive equality.

It's actually equality across the economy.

And at the moment, in those key areas that I outlined, we're not there yet.

And if you take your foot off the accelerator,

If you're not dealing with some of these big structural barriers that prevent women from actually reaching equality, government decision-making isn't informed by that.

So it's actually about keeping us accountable more than anything, the Women's Budget Statement, to explain what we're doing and how we're tackling some of these big issues for women.

Disappointed.

Look, I mean, a budget is thousands of, literally thousands of decisions.

And we've had to say no to a lot of things in this budget, partly because of the role, you know, how seriously we take some of the inflation challenge in the economy, partly because, you know, other things become more of a priority than others.

So dealing with fuel, which sort of came out of

left field.

And, you know, when we started, the budget wasn't a thing and then has become one of the big things in the budget.

So it's rather than something specifically, it's the amount, like as finance minister, a lot of my job is saying no, like the budget can't hold it.