Senate debates

Tuesday, 6 October 2020

Questions without Notice

Budget: Employment

2:12 pm

Photo of Michaelia CashMichaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business) Share this | Hansard source

The government has partnered with states and territories to put in place the $1 billion JobTrainer Fund. This will provide Australians access to free or low-cost training in areas of demand so that they can get the identified skills and get into a job. JobTrainer is central to Australia's and Australians' economic recovery from COVID-19. What it will do is provide school leavers and jobseekers with new opportunities and new skills to get into a job. I'm very, very pleased to inform the Senate that we have launched JobTrainer agreements with Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia, New South Wales and the ACT, and that we will shortly launch JobTrainer in the Northern Territory. Those states and territories have agreed to match the federal government dollar for dollar. JobTrainer will provide Australians with an additional 340,700 training places and, again, these are in areas of identified need so that they can get into a job.

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