Women's Health.
Steven Miles is proud to be the Health Minister who decriminalised abortion in Queensland. He understands that abortion is healthcare and will always stand up for Queensland women’s right to choose.
Doing what matters for Women.
Steven Miles understands that abortion is healthcare and will always stand up for Queensland women’s right to choose.
Because of Steven Miles and Labor, Queensland women have better access to healthcare like:
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Specialised health clinics for focused care for endometriosis and pelvic pain.
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The pill and treatment for UTIs easier, straight from your chemist.
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Satellite hospitals and expanded midwifery workforce, providing worldclass health care closer to home
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Free abortion services because Labor decriminalised abortion and funded state services
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Steven Miles and Labor delivered nation-leading 10 days paid reproductive health leave for all Queensland public sector workers.
From 30 September, this leave will be able to be taken for IVF treatment and chronic conditions including endometriosis, dysmenorrhea, or severe menopause symptoms.
Steven Miles and Labor are also ensuring new parents are paid superannuation for entire 52-week period of parental leave, whether the leave is paid or not.
We are also delivering 10 new and replacement domestic and family violence shelters. Steven Miles and Labor has passed new laws on coercive control and revenge porn, and we trained Queensland magistrates to ensure they have the skills and knowledge the consider complex domestic and family violence matters as well as the complex impacts of this on adult victims and children.
Steven Miles and Labor passed the Respect@Work Bill, which is designed to eliminate sexual harassment and gendered discrimination from Queensland workplaces.
It establishes a new, positive duty on all employers to take reasonable and proportionate measures to eliminate discrimination, sexual harassment and other conduct that is unlawful under the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991.
Labor's Record.
Labor believes in equality, safety and respect for women.
The Miles Government is building on Labor’s strong record for delivering for Queensland women and young girls.
This includes a commitment to remove barriers that stand in the way of equality, inclusion, and economic participation of women and girls, backed by a $16.3 million economic security plan.
Labor is improving health services for women by increasing the number of social workers delivering mental health services to women and girls, increasing investment in breast screening services and strengthening maternity services in regional rural and remote areas with a $42 million investment.
And Labor will never roll back the reproductive rights of Queensland women.
This is all under risk under the LNP.
Women’s rights and bodily autonomy are at risk under if the LNP win government.
David Crisafulli voted against the decriminalisation of abortion and his Deputy referred to women who access abortions as “taking the easy way out”.
The LNP have referred to abortion safe zones and “censorship zones” and David Crisafulli has personally endorsed extremist anti-choice candidates.
The LNP have previously given an “iron clad guarantee” that they would wind back our laws.
David Crisafulli is a threat to a woman’s right to choose.
The LNP won’t just roll back a woman’s right to choose. He will also cut the services that women rely on.
When they were last in government, David Crisafulli and the LNP cut women’s health services, domestic and family violence services, specialist legal and housing services – leaving Queensland women high and dry.