Warren Snowdon (Lingiari, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern Australia and Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

With great respect to you and through you to the minister, the budget papers refer to a number of jobs, from memory in excess of 800, that will be created as a result of moneys made available through another agency that include something like $12 million; I forget the figure, but an amount of money allocated in the budget to create real jobs in communities and in areas where currently other agencies are employing people to do work under CDEP. I make this observation because it is true that the quarantine services, and Customs and other agencies work closely with these communities and these communities carry out work on their behalf at times. The question is: what number of jobs will arise out of this budget measure in your portfolio?

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