Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

As I said in the first answer, the government has committed just under $51 million to the programs to which the senator refers—the Indigenous Youth Career Pathways program. I am also advised that this program was subject to an independent public tender process under which the contracts have a stated expiry date, so I am not sure, in the context of the tender process, to what the senator is referring. In relation to the tender, as I said, the advice I have is that the quality of submissions for the tender was very high and the outcomes, as you would expect, reflected the result of a competitive and open tender process. It is the case that this is a new approach in relation to this program. I am advised that the previous supply program, the IEP program--(Time expired)