Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Minister for Community Services) Share this | Hansard source

Perhaps this is not in relation to that particular individual, because he is a very experienced individual, but the remainder will have to have predeployment orientation training. That has already commenced. That is going to include cross-cultural training, particular occupational health issues that one would meet in a community that one may not have experienced in other parts of their lives, four-wheel drive defensive driving—whilst one may raise their eyebrows about that, it is very important for those people who have not driven a four-wheel drive; it is a very different experience, particularly on some of the roads in those areas—and financial management. Some of the experienced applicants, as I said, will simply require a top-up in a whole range of those skills. But the orientation is to prepare individuals so that they can provide the very best level of amenity that they would normally provide outside the community. They will be able to provide that as best they can in a community context.