Senate debates

Thursday, 28 June 2018

Questions without Notice

Youth Jobs PaTH Program

3:03 pm

Photo of Matthew CanavanMatthew Canavan (Queensland, Liberal National Party, Minister for Resources and Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

We take any incident that the senator referred to very seriously, and, of course, we take complaints about the program very seriously too. Obviously, with any government program, there will at times be complaints. The important thing is that the government is serious in responding to them. I can report, however, that, of the 2,885 businesses that have taken on interns under the PaTH program, just two of those business have been suspended from the program. We would argue this is quite a high degree of compliance and effectiveness—

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