Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for COAG) Share this | Hansard source

I have a further supplementary question. Given we are now one week closer, since I last asked the minister these questions, to many providers who are victims of the freeze having to work out how to continue to operate, can the minister explain how the Indigenous community—and indeed all Australians—could have any confidence that the minister and the government are really serious about achieving the Closing the Gap objective of halving the gap in employment outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians by 2018?