Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for COAG) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the minister for the undertaking. I have a supplementary question. Is the minister aware of the Replay Group, to which I have referred in a question before, which has placed 1,100 Indigenous Australians into jobs in the aged care and childcare sectors since 2000, all of whom have completed at least 26 weeks of continuous employment? Can the minister explain why the department refused to guarantee ongoing funding under the IEP and advised the Replay Group to apply for funding under the National Workforce Development Fund, despite the fact that a review into IEP providers commissioned by Minister Collins found that the placement program was the best of the providers selected by the minister?