Morrison is criticised for flawed responses key election issues
Fifty-one per cent of women in Australia have expressed dissatisfaction towards the administration of Prime Minister Scott Morrison, according to a survey from the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU).
ACTU's ASK Survey revealed that women are dissatisfied in three areas that they believe to be key election issues. These include:
- Reducing cost of living, where 74% of women are disappointed
- Addressing low wage growth, with 61% dissatisfied
- Responding to housing affordability, with 73% dissatisfied
"Scott Morrison has been missing in action when Australian women needed him to address the crises in cost of living, wage growth, and housing affordability. This data shows that women have had enough," said ACTU president Michele O'Neil.
"Women were on the frontlines of the pandemic response in undervalued, underpaid sectors like health, aged and disability care and education. Now they are facing a cost-of-living crisis created by nearly a decade of low wage growth and now falling real wages under this Government," she added.
"Women are doing it tough, are more likely to be low paid and in insecure jobs and they know they can't afford another three years of this Prime Minister."
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According to O'Neil, Morrison likes to say that he cares about women, but does little to costs of living, deliver real pay hikes, and make women safer in workplaces, or their jobs secure.
"Australian women deserve a government which will do the hard work to end the crises they are facing."
The survey arrived less than two weeks before Australia holds its 2022 federal election on May 21, where Morrison is seeking a fourth consecutive term as prime minister.
