Footnotes

Chapter 1 - The Bill

[1]        Senate Hansard, 16 May 2002, p.1696.

Chapter 2 - Issues arising from the Bill

[1]        Transcript of proceedings, Ms Sharan Burrow, ACTU, 9 August 2002, p.20

[2]        Transcript of proceedings, Mrs Pauline Smit, WAA, 9 August 2002, p.8

[3]        Speech transcript, Senator the Hon. Amanda Vanstone, 4 September 2002.

[4]        Submission 5, Australian Family Association (NSW), p.1

[5]        Transcript of media interview with Prime Minister the Hon. John Howard MP, 31 July 2002.

[6]        Transcript of proceedings, Ms Sharan Burrow, ACTU, 9 August 2002, p.21

[7]        Submission 20, OSW, FACS, DEWR, p.31

[8]        ibid

[9]        Submission 11, SDA, p.5

[10]       Submission 11, SDA, pp.5-6

[11]       Transcript of proceedings, Ms Sharan Burrow, ACTU, 9 August 2002, pp.21-22

[12]       Transcript of proceedings, Ms Stephen Smith, AIGroup, 9 August 2002, p.3

[13]       Transcript of proceedings, Ms Cath Bowtell, ACTU, 9 August 2002, p.19

[14]       Transcript of proceedings, Mr Stephen Smith, AIGroup, 9 August 2002, p.3

[15]       Senate Hansard, 16 May 2002, p.1696

[16]       Submission 20, OSW, DEWR, FACS, p.9

Labor Senators' Report

[1]        See Majority Report para 2.12

[2]        Statistic in this paragraph are derived from Submission 20, OSW, DEWR, FACS, Attachment B

[3]        DEWR and the Office of the Employment Advocate (2002) Agreement Making under the Workplace Relations Act, fig. 3.5.9, p.81

[4]        Majority Report para 2.12

[5]        Majority Report para 2.1

[6]        Workplace Relations Act 1996, Schedule 14, Part 2, Clause 3(2)(h)

[7]        Explanatory Memorandum, p.9

[8]        The Australian Industry Group (Submission 28) was an exception.

[9]        Submission 14, BPW Australia, p.9. Other submissions expressing similar concerns were those from Associate Professor Wendy Weeks, the Finance Sector Union, Women’s Economic Think Tank, Slater and Gordon, the AMWU, the ACTU, Shop Distributive and Allied Employees’ Association, Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union, Ms Lyn Collins, the CPSU, the NTEU, Women’s Electoral Lobby, and the YWCA.

[10]      Submission 15, Ms Lyn Collins, p.3

[11]      Submission 19, Australian Education Union, p.4

[12]      Transcript of Evidence, Ms Pru Goward, 22 August 2002, p.62

[13]      Submission 5, Australian Family Association, p.1

[14]      Submission 18, ACTU, p.12

[15]      Submission 10, Salt Shakers, and Submission 25, Festival of Light did appear to oppose support for mothers in paid employment.

[16]      See Schedule 1, Part 2, Clause 4(2)(b)

[17]      Explanatory Memorandum, p.9

[18]      Transcript of Evidence, Senator Stott Despoja, 9 August 2002, p.18

[19]      Transcript of Evidence, Senator Stott Despoja, 9 August 2002, p.18

[20]      Explanatory Memorandum, p.12

[21]      Transcript of Evidence, Mr Stephen Smith, 9 August 2002, p.6

[22]      Transcript of Evidence, Ms Cath Bowtell, 9 August 2002, pp.21-22

[23]      Transcript of Evidence, Ms Libby Sanderson, 9 August 2002, p.25

[24]      Transcript of Evidence, Ms Pru Goward, 22 August 2002, p.63

[25]      Explanatory Memorandum, p.10

[26]      Submission 31, National Pay Equity Coalition , p.20

[27]      Submission 14, BPW Australia, p.8

[28]      Submission 23, NTEU, Attachment 1, p.3

[29]      Submission 2, Associate Professor Wendy Weeks, p.5

[30]      The SDA supported this level. The Women’s Action Alliance supported this level as a compromise, with average weekly females earnings as an ideal.

[31]      ABS cat 6302.0 May 2002

[32]      ibid

[33]      Submission 7, Women’s Economic Think-Tank, p.4

[34]      Submission 8, AMWU; Submission 12, LHMU; Submission 18, ACTU; Submission 19, AEU

[35]      Submission 28, AI Group, p.4

[36]      Transcript of Evidence, Ms Pru Goward, 22 August 2002, p.57

[37]      Transcript of Evidence, Ms Pru Goward, 22 August 2002, p.63

[38]      Explanatory Memorandum, p.13

[39]      Submission 18, ACTU, p.6

[40]      Submission 26, Australian Hotels Association, p.5

[41]      HREOC (2002) Valuing Parenthood p.63

[42]      Transcript of Evidence, AI Group, 9 August 2002, p.2

[43]      Submission 2, Professor Wendy Weeks, pp. 2-3

Report on the Australian Democrats

[1] BPW Australia, Submission No. 14, p.2

[2] Lyn Collins, Submission No. 15, p.3

[3] BPW Australia, Submission No. 14, p.1

[4] Victorian Automobile Chamber of Commerce, Submission No. 30, p.7

[5] The Australian Catholic Commission for Employment Relations, Submission No. 32, p.3

[6] Festival of Light, Submission No. 25, p.5

[7] See, for example, Shop Distributive & Allied Employees’ Association (SDA), Submission No. 11, and National Pay and Equity Coalition (NPEC), Submission No. 31.

[8] AIG, Submission No. 28, p.22

[9] NPEC, Submission No. 31, p.12

[10] Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), Submission No. 18, p.2

[11] Chapman, B. Dunlop, Y, Gray, M. Liu, A. and Mitchell (1999) ‘The foregone earnings from child rearing revised’, Discussion paper No 47, Centre for Economic Policy research, ANU, Canberra.

[12] AIG, Submission No. 28, p.21; Women’s Electoral Lobby Australia Inc (WEL), Submission No. 24, p.8

[13] Finance Sector Union of Australia (FSU), Submission No. 4, section 3, p.1

[14] The Age, 8/3/02

[15] NPEC, Submission No. 31, p.21

[16] LHMU Submission No. 12, p.9

[17] BPW Australia, Submission No. 14, p.3

[18] AIG, Submission No. 28, p.8

[19] WEL, Submission No. 24, p.11

[20] NFF, Submission No. 3, p.3

[21] YWCA of Australia, Submission No. 27, p.14

[22] Insight, SBS, 15/8/02

[23] McDonald, P (2002) Speaking on Insight, SBS, 15/8/02

[24] Australian Family, Association, Submission No. 6, p.1

[25] Festival of Light, Submission No. 25, p.5

[26] AHA, Submission No. 26, p.4

[27] NPEC, Submission No. 31, p.5

[28] ACCER, Submission No. 32, pp.2-3; ACTU, Submission No. 18, p.11; Women’s Action Alliance, Submission No. 9, p.2; SDA, Submission No. 11, p.6; Australian Family Association (NSW), Submission No. 5, p.1

[29] BPW Australia, Submission No. 14, p.8

[30] BPW Australia, Submission No. 14, p.9

[31] Women’s Economic Think Tank (WETTANK), Submission No. 7, p.2

[32] WETTANK, Submission No. 7, p.2

[33] FSU, Submission No. 4, p.4

[34] YWCA, Submission No. 27, p.15;  NPEC, Submission No. 31, p.4

[35] Australian Education Union (AEU), Submission No. 19, p.3; Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) (PSU Group), Submission No. 29, p.4

[36] CPSU (SPSF Group), Submission No. 17, p.6

[37]NPEC, Submission No. 31, p.22

[38] SDA, Submission No. 11, p.6

[39] SDA, Submission No. 11, p.11

[40] NPEC, Submission No. 31, p.25

[41] NPEC, Submission No. 31, p.25

[42] AEU, Submission No. 19, p.8

[43] CPSU (SPSF Group), Submission No. 17, p.11

[44] AIG, Submission No. 28, p.31

[45] See, for example, The Australian Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union (LHMU), Submission No. 12, p.4

[46] NPEC, Submission No. 31, p.28

[47] Catholic Women’s League Australia, Submission No. 16, p.1

[48] Wendy Weeks, Women’s Studies Research Unit, School of Social Work, University of Melbourne, Submission No. 2, pp.4-5

[49] See, for example, Council of Small Business Organisations of Australia, Submission No. 13

[50] Wendy Weeks, Women’s Studies Research Unit, School of Social Work, University of Melbourne, Submission No. 2, p.6

[51] NPEC, Submission No. 31, p.24

[52] Media Release, Senator Nick Minchin, Minister for Finance and Administration, 12 September 2002.

[53] NFF, Submission No. 3, p.4

[54] FSU, Submission No. 4, p.3