Senator BOB CARR (New South Wales—Minister for Foreign Affairs) (14:36): I acknowledge the visit of the Executive Director of UN Women, Under-Secretary-General of the UN Ms Michelle Bachelet. She was the first woman President of Chile—indeed, the first woman ever elected head of state in any South American country. She now leads the UN's effort to promote gender equality and empower women. Australia, I am proud to say, and all senators should be proud to acknowledge, is the fifth largest donor to UN Women and we are on track to be the second largest donor by 2016—and we should be. In its 2012 world development report, the World Bank found that, by eliminating discrimination against female workers, global productivity per worker could be increased by up to 40 per cent. That is why in Indonesia we are creating over 330,000 new primary school places, of which half will be for girls. That is why in Sri Lanka we are assisting over 2,000 women in rural areas to access training and obtain small-business loans to improve their lives. That is why in Papua New Guinea we have improved access to justice for women by increasing the number of female magistrates in the village court systems of that country from just over 10 seven years ago to over 600 today. This is a terrific example of Australian aid at work promoting the position of women in a developing country, in this case PNG. In Uruzgan province, Afghanistan, Australian aid has provided basic health and hygiene education to 8,000 primary school students, 34 per cent of them girls. In Fiji we have supported a new electronic welfare payment system that has assisted 17,000 people, 63 per cent of them women. (Time expired)