Published: 12 November 2018

Legislative Council Tuesday 30 October 2018

Ms  FORREST  (Murchison) - Mr President, I am happy to speak on this issue.  I am not going to reflect on what the Government Administration A subcommittee is looking at in its inquiry.  It will report in due course.  A few things being talked about in the public arena do need comment, particularly with my background in the health field as a nurse and midwife.  This is not reflecting on the work of the committee; this is reflecting on public comments I have made in other places and information already in the public arena.

Published: 08 November 2018

Legislative Council Thursday 1 November 2018

Ms FORREST  (Murchison) - Mr President - 

On average at least one woman is killed every week at the hands of a current or former partner in Australia.  Last month the numbers were even more alarming.  Nine women were killed in October - seven allegedly in the context of a current or former intimate relationship, the other two also suspected to have died at the hands of male perpetrators.

What are we doing?  We are trying to do some more here.  That was a quote from today's edition of The Conversation.  It goes on -

Published: 29 August 2018

Women earn on average $253 a week less than men, which negatively impacts their financial and social well-being, says a Tasmanian MP.

Murchison MLC Ruth Forrest successfully moved a motion on Tuesday that the Legislative Council note the gender pay gap was a major impediment to equality.

Ms Forrest said the Commonwealth Workplace Gender Equity Agency calculated the national pay gap as being 15.3 per cent which means that for every $1 a male receives, a female receives 85 cents.