Rhonda Sharp – The Conversation

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September 29, 2020

Each budget used to have a gender impact statement. We need it back

Rhonda Sharp, University of South Australia; Monica Costa, Curtin University, and Siobhan Austen, Curtin University

For 30 years we had such a statement, until the Abbott-Hockey budget of 2014.

False assumptions about the “average worker” impacts on decisions about childcare, paid parental leave and aged care funding. Flickr/Ian

May 12, 2016

Why neither party should ignore gender in this election

Siobhan Austen, Curtin University; Rhonda Sharp, University of South Australia, and Therese Jefferson, Curtin University

False economic assumptions beset the federal budget and that should worry both political parties.

Nursing homes, and the people who care for the elderly, would benefit if there was less of a taboo around talking about dirty business. AAP/Alan Porritt

November 24, 2013

We need to talk about dirty work, and what it’s worth

Siobhan Austen, Curtin University; Rhonda Sharp, University of South Australia, and Therese Jefferson, Curtin University

A recent survey found 73% of aged care workers in Australia did dirty work, coming into contact with bodily products. These products that are normal – we all poo and bleed – but taboos surrounding dirty…

Women are most likely to depend Centrelink payments. AAP

May 5, 2011

How the surplus drains the gender balance

Rhonda Sharp, University of South Australia

FEDERAL BUDGET 2011: In recent decades, the budget surplus has become a goal in itself and an obsession for governments. In the process, we have lost some perspective on what kind of social and economic…

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