Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Families and Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you very much to Senator Siewert for her ongoing questioning. The government is absolutely focused not only on making sure people who do not have a job have a job to go to—by the creation of jobs; the 1.4 million jobs created over the term of this government and a plan to create just as many going forward—but also on creating the pathways through a number of programs to make sure people who don't have a job have a pathway to get those jobs as they are created by virtue of a strong economy. But the most important thing we do is seek to break down the individual barriers that individual cohorts find for themselves in getting a job, through programs like the Try, Test and Learn program. I met with people on this program last Friday in Adelaide. Of the 19 migrant women who are going through this particular program, 18 now have jobs. That is the kind of success this government is determined to achieve in breaking the poverty cycle.