Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business) Share this | Hansard source

Again, as we recognise, as the Prime Minister recognises and as the Treasurer recognises, there remains a long road to recovery. But Australians also want to know that we are on the right track. They want to know that the policies that we, as a government, are putting in place to support them, and to support their employers in keeping their jobs open, are actually working. And they are. In fact, more than 75 per cent of those who'd lost their jobs have returned to work. That is actually a good thing for those people. Seventy-five per cent who'd lost their jobs are back at work. When you look at the last five months, around 648,500 jobs have returned to the labour market since employment fell to its lowest level in May. Pleasingly, as Senator Payne knows, almost 343,800 jobs were for women. Australians want to be given hope, and certainly the employment figures do just that. (Time expired)