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

We are absolutely committed to improving the employment opportunity of all Australians, but, given my position as the minister responsible for social services, I am particularly focused on making sure that disability employment is a very, very important part of our policy platform. My one simple goal is to make sure that we give people who have disability the same access to the broad suite of employment opportunities that every other Australian has access to. I want every person with a disability who has the capacity and wants to work to be able to get a job. I want to make sure that employers see employing people with disability as a mainstream, everyday activity that they build into their business model. And I want everybody who's living with a disability, if they want to be, to be a taxpayer because I know it's great for them, it's a great outcome for their communities, it's a great outcome for their families and it's a great outcome for our society as a whole.