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

From the day I was sworn in—from 18 September 2013—we have moved people and created 45,000 jobs. That is 60 jobs a day. Some of the bigger chunks have been done through the Vocational Training and Employment scheme. As I have indicated here before, that was the GenerationOne model. It is really successful because we are not just training; we actually start with the job. We have reverse-engineered it so that people are moving into real work.

The Indigenous Procurement Policy, which most people now know about, has been very successful. We have increased by 46 times what other iterations have achieved, and we know that an Indigenous business is 100 times as likely to employ an Indigenous person. This is another one of our principal planks in ensuring that we are engaging our First Australians in employment.