Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Can I just respond to Senator Scullion briefly. I do not know why Senator Scullion did not receive the amendments. They were circulated in the chamber earlier in the week, because I did not want to surprise people. So I am not sure what happened there.

I would also like to ask the government if they could ask the department to speed up an answer to a question I asked at estimates—which, I understand, the department took on notice—which was about access to the 25 specialist Indigenous job service providers. It would be very handy to get access to that information. I raised this during my speech in the second reading debate: there are 4,000 people who are about to move off CDEP, and I would like to get an understanding of where the 25 providers are and whether they are going to be able to service those 4,000 people. I am not having a go. I asked this at estimates only two weeks ago. But, if you could speed up that answer, that would be much appreciated.