Andrew Southcott (Boothby, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment Participation, Training and Sport) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Education, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for Social Inclusion. Is the minister aware that while the government was forecasting 300,000 more Australians would be out of work by June next year the department responsible for getting Australians back into jobs held a week-long happiness seminar for 100 of her public servants? These happiness seminars were run by Professor Martin Seligman, who has coined the expression ‘learned helplessness’ to describe someone who refuses to take responsibility for anything. Will the minister take responsibility for this extravagant spending of almost $1 million of taxpayers’ money or has she learned helplessness?

The member for Herbert then left the chamber.

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