Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Women) Share this | Hansard source

On this side of the chamber, we very much want to see outcome-driven job services programs, and that is why, under the jobactive model that we have brought in, there has been a fundamental change in the funding model. Under the former government's Job Services Australia model, two-thirds of the service provider fees were geared towards service delivery. Under the jobactive program, payments to employment providers are focused on payments for actual employment outcomes. Additionally, funding for providers is focused on making individuals job ready rather than putting them into training for training's sake. Under the former government's Job Services Australia program, putting somebody in another training program just for the sake of training them was actually considered an outcome in the same way as getting them employment was. Under this government, what we want to see is actual outcomes realised by way of a job, and that is what— (Time expired)