Senate debates

Monday, 29 July 2019

Questions without Notice

Newstart Allowance

2:00 pm

Photo of Anne RustonAnne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Families and Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

No-one has ever said that it would be easy to live without a job. But that is why this government is so focused on job creation, but not just job creation. Our track record on job creation stands for itself: 1.3 million jobs in the last term of this government, and a plan to create another 1.25 million into the future. But we are also creating the pathways so that people who are looking for a job will be able to access the jobs that are created. Through my colleague, the Minister for Employment, Minister Cash, and through her jobactive services, and also through my area of Disability Employment Services—and last week I explained some of the fantastic things that we're doing with disability employment—this government is absolutely focused on creating jobs and creating pathways to jobs so that—

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