Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians) Share this | Hansard source

The measures that we've put in place to assist younger Australians back into work are not just about one single measure. We have invested in a number of measures to assist employers to take on younger Australians. We were criticised by those on the other side for focusing too much on younger Australians in our budget only a few weeks ago. They forget what they were saying just a few weeks ago, when they were criticising our budget for being so heavily focused on younger Australians and on assisting younger Australians to get back into work, with all of the programs that we put into place. We make no apology for focusing on younger Australians getting back to work. We recognise, as I said just a moment ago, that the impact on younger Australians who don't have work when they're young is over a longer period of time and more significant. We will do everything that we can to assist employers to get younger people back into work.