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

Since becoming minister the programs in my portfolio have created just over 60,000 jobs. To put that in context: that's around 60 jobs every single day. We are doing this through a suite of new programs that are complementing CDP. Of course, Vocational Training and Employment Centres—VTECs—have ended the Labor cycle of training for training's sake that has plagued Indigenous affairs for decades. It's not only about engaging jobseekers where there is a guaranteed job at the end; it's also providing for a specific role at the end of that.

Providers only actually get paid when they deliver. Providers get paid when the jobseeker has been employed for six months, which has ended that churn of change. If they're employed for six months, 82 per cent of them will be there two years later; that's what the evidence says. The VTECs have created over 7,000 jobs, 70 per cent of those being for the most disadvantaged jobseekers. The best form of welfare is a job and that is exactly what the coalition are going to deliver.