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Cabinet reshuffle sees new, bigger focus on women, so who has ended up where?
The main theme out of the latest Cabinet reshuffle is that women should be, and will be, embedded in all areas.
The idea, Minister for Women Marise Payne says, is that for the first time ever women’s issues are going to be treated as a whole-of-government priority.
That means their safety and economic security, among other things.
In essence, it sounds like the government is going to start applying a gender lens — where it looks at how a law will affect women specifically — to its policies, something advocates have long been calling for.
So, how’s it going to do that exactly? Here’s what’s changing.
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