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Labor, Coalition clash over WGEA
The Canberra Times
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2/25/2025
Finance Minister Katy Gallagher and opposition spokesperson for finance, Jane Hume, clash in Senate estimates over the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.
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I think you should just be up front about what you're doing here.
00:03
You used to support WGEA, now you don't support WGEA, and that's where this is heading.
00:07
Are you afraid of transparency?
00:09
I'm not afraid. It's very transparent.
00:11
Why are you arcing up about this?
00:12
I'm not sitting here smirching the work that WGEA does.
00:17
Because of the location of WGEA. She said that it was really hard to recruit people to Sydney CBD.
00:23
Because of the cost of living crisis.
00:27
So I'm just wondering.
00:29
I just think you should be up front about what you're doing here.
00:31
You're opposed to legislation in the Senate.
00:33
After 40 years of supporting this, you're turning your back on it.
00:36
So let's just be up front about that.
00:38
Don't pretend that it's something about a lease cost.
00:41
That's just what we want to do.
00:42
What are you afraid of, Minister?
00:45
Senator Hume is just asking questions.
00:48
You don't need to run interference, Senator McGrath.
00:51
I'm not running interference.
00:52
Senator Hume can look after herself.
00:53
I don't understand why voices are being raised.
00:55
When Senator Hume is asking some very factual questions here,
00:58
she doesn't need your protection, Senator McGrath.
01:00
She certainly doesn't need my protection.
01:02
But I'm concerned that the taxpayers of Australia would like to get answers to the questions.
01:06
Well, they have the answers and it's all reported in the annual report.
01:09
What's happening here is there's an attempt to besmirch the work that WGEA is doing.
01:15
That is not true.
01:16
Will you oppose the legislation in the Senate?
01:19
You did.
01:21
After 40 years of backing it, you are now a crab walking away.
01:25
That's what's happening here.
01:26
Let's be upfront about what you and your leader are doing here.
01:30
I'm really giving it a good crack at asking some questions of WGEA
01:33
and essentially the minister is just filling the vacuum with noise.
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