Senate debates

Monday, 9 November 2020

Questions without Notice

Employment

2:31 pm

Photo of Pauline HansonPauline Hanson (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

Prior to COVID, 727,000 people were on Newstart allowance. Of these unemployed people, 56 per cent were over the age of 45. Of those over the age of 55, 30 per cent have been unemployed for five years or more and half of them do not need to meet their mutual obligation to find work. Why? And what are you doing about that?

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