Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

This government is not seeking to penalise young job seekers. This government is endeavouring to make sure that younger Australians are either earning or learning. I would have thought that would be a policy objective that everyone in this place could embrace—that is, that, if a younger person is not earning then they should be studying and, if they are not studying, we want to see them in a position where they have a job. Every budget measure in relation to younger Australians that has been announced by the government has one objective in mind, and that is to do whatever we possibly can to help them into work.