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

This government is investing $4.8 billion over four years through the Indigenous Advancement Strategy, focusing on achieving real results in our key priority areas of getting children to school, of getting adults into work and of safer communities. In 2013-14, under the government's previous Indigenous focused employment programs, 14,538 Indigenous job seekers commenced employment. Between July and December 2014, 8,271 Indigenous job seekers commenced employment with support through the IAS. Funding includes $45 million to support the vocational training and employment centres, which have been an outstanding success. Twenty eight of these centres now operate in urban, regional and remote Australia, with contracts to train a further 4,500-odd Indigenous people into guaranteed jobs. With 921 Indigenous people now working in jobs through VTECs, we are on track, with more than 5,000 people trained into real jobs by the end of the year. (Time expired)