Scott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Social Services, Senator Fifield, because I understand there is no longer a housing minister. Are you aware that the National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness expires on 30 June, putting at risk hundreds of jobs across 41 different organisations providing at least 80 different support services in Western Australia? Are you aware that Mission Australia has calculated that without essential funding under this agreement some 80,000 men, women and children will be adversely affected and forced back into dangerous situations of homelessness or situations approaching homelessness, and that the jobs of some 3,400 staff across Australia would be in jeopardy? What is the Australian government doing to resolve this situation?