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

The skills investment that the Morrison government is putting in place is all about generational change and it will support Australians to get the qualifications and skills they need, importantly, to secure jobs after the pandemic. We want them to train up in areas where we know there is labour market demand. This is, of course, crucial, in particular to supporting job security, economic productivity and quality of life for all Australians.

In relation to the labour market, over the last seven months Australians have now seen 784,500 jobs return to the economy as COVID-19 restrictions have eased. Hours of work have now increased 165 million. Full-time employment was a majority of employment in terms of jobs growth in both November and December of last year. We know there is a long way to go, but the policies that the Morrison government is putting in place are seeing jobs return to the economy.