Austen, S.Sharp, R.Jefferson, T.2025-12-172025-12-172016https://hdl.handle.net/11541.2/121185Gender was invisible in the 2016 Budget. But as our gender audit of last week's federal budget reveals, neither party can afford to ignore it in the current election campaign. Treasurer Scott Morrison has previously implied that women's concerns about the inequality in tax and expenditure measures are petty". But gender bias in economic thinking ignores the gender division of labour, including women's under-representation in paid work, their over-representation in unpaid and low paid caring work, and men's over-representation in full-time work, and higher paid jobs. It results in false assumptions about the "average worker" and inhibits a proper understanding of the investment impacts of childcare, paid parental leave and aged care funding. The oversight and attitude need to be remedied in the development of policy for the next term of government."enCopyright 2016 the author. This publication is available under a Creative Commons Attribution NoDerrivatives licence. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/)Federal Budget 2016Federal election 2016GenderWebsite