Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

I assure Senator Roberts, as I do every member of this chamber and every Australian, that our government is working as hard as it can to create jobs to help Australia out of the economic disaster created by this pandemic. Our work in terms of supporting and sustaining jobs throughout the pandemic, through programs like JobKeeper, has been recognised as world leading. Our effort in deploying other policies, such as the home builder program, to head off potential declines in the construction industry; our effort to support the creative arts sector by attracting more production to Australia and supporting job generation and creation there; and our effort in terms of skills investment that Senator Cash is leading to make sure that Australians who may not have work at present are able to retrain for the future are all about creating jobs and helping Australians to get back into the employment market as we recover.