Senate debates

Thursday, 15 February 2018

Questions without Notice

Indigenous Affairs

2:44 pm

Photo of Nigel ScullionNigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Minister for Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Our policies have resulted in a 23.3 per cent jump in the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in work. In South Australia we're investing in practical measures to stop the vicious cycle of recidivism by getting people job-ready in prison. I recently launched the Correctional Services Training and Employment Program, with $225,000 over three years to train 20 Indigenous Australians as correctional services officers. This will make the prisons in South Australia more culturally competent and better placed to deal with their inmates. We'll deliver 20 Indigenous prison trainees in Adelaide, Port Augusta, Port Lincoln, Mobilong and Cadell prisons. A young lady from Murray Bridge, Annina Tarasenko, is 23 and one of the first trainees to be selected for C-STEP. She says, 'The program has changed my life.' So she's told us that as an Indigenous person working in correctional services she can make a positive difference for Indigenous— (Time expired)

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