House debates Bills
Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2011-2012; Consideration in Detail
Sussan Ley Farrer, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Childcare and Early Childhood Learning
6:45 pm
Picking up where the minister left off, which concerns the changed requirements for the very long-term unemployed and their being given work activities for 11 months: given those increased participation requirements that are due to commence in the middle of 2012, would you expect that job service providers will have to commence increased Work for the Dole activities? How might that be funded and how might it work in practice? The current level of Work for the Dole activities—as I will call them generically—is extremely low. If not, what types of work experience activities do you think will be utilised to make sure that that number of long-term unemployed job seekers actually does have an opportunity to meet their mutual obligation requirements?
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