Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Throughout COVID-19 we have worked with the states and territories, particularly in relation to delivering the skilled workforce that Australia needs. You will recall that we set up the JobTrainer Fund. This was jointly funded between the states and territories and the Commonwealth government. It was a $2 billion JobTrainer program supporting over 400,000 free or low-cost training places in areas of demand. The key here was working with the states and territories to ensure that the investment we were making together properly reflected the demand in the workplace. When people sign up for those free or low-cost courses that you see offered by the individual states and territories, they know that the Morrison-Joyce government is supporting them to become upskilled in an area in which the labour market is saying, 'You will get a job.'