House debates Social Security Legislation Amendment (Employment Services Reform) Bill 2008

Consideration in Detail

Monday, 24 November 2008 House of Representatives

Brendan O'Connor

Brendan O'Connor Gorton, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment Participation

4:22 pm

I will not take up the entire time allotted; I just want to respond to the shadow minister who just rose to contribute to the debate on the amendments. I remind the House that, in relation to the very long term unemployed, things have not got better in the last decade; they have got worse. In 1998 there were one in 10 jobseekers defined as very long term unemployed. It is now almost one in four—

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