Download Our Pre-Election Briefing for Women in Business Here

As the federal election campaign reaches fever pitch, we’ve been flooded with information about interest rates, Work Choices and economic management – but very little about the issues identified by the ABN community as critical to small business survival, including:

• the red tape burden on small business
• the future of the childcare situation in Australia
• the glass ceiling
• provision of government support for women in business and
• the discrepancy in male/female superannuation balances and its effect on women’s retirement lifestyle

To fill the information gap and help you make an informed choice on election day, we took those issues to senior female members of the Coalition, Labor, Democrats and Greens parties in a series of targeted questions.

We also asked two open questions, the first relating to each party’s perspective on the key issues facing women in business; and the second about their priority plans to address the public policy needs of Australian women in business.

Click here to download our report.

We hope you find our brief interesting and informative and invite comment via policy@abn.org.au, by commenting on this blog post, or direct to Susan McGrath, ABN National Special Projects Manager (Advocacy and Lobbying) on 0439 908 108.