Guy Barnett (Tasmania, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Through you, Mr Acting Deputy President. I am happy to take that interjection and say that it is important to have contestability when it comes to Welfare to Work services such as the vocational rehabilitation services.

I am proud to be a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Employment, Workplace Relations and Education that inquired into these bills. I want to thank on the record Senator Judith Troeth, our chair, for the work that she did in leading the committee through that inquiry, and John Carter and the committee secretariat for the work they undertook and the services they provided to our committee.