Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Jobs and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

As I was saying, the 2017 year is the first year on record in which the number of jobs has increased every single month. Our policies are working. The economy is creating jobs. But you also need to deliver policies that will actively get Australians who are on welfare off welfare and into work, and that is also what this government does. For example, our massive investment in getting our youth off welfare and into work via our Youth Jobs PaTH program is giving our youth the ability to improve their job readiness, their work experience and move away from a lifetime of welfare. The ParentsNext program actively works with parents who are in need. More than 96 per cent of them are women. It helps them move off welfare and into work when their children start school. And we're also assisting youth with the Transition to Work program. We are keeping Australians working.