Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

The support through the JobKeeper and JobSeeker supplements has been an important element of our response to date, but they're not the only elements of support to continue to create more jobs and get more Australians back into work. We now see record levels of participation in the Australian employment market. It is a remarkable situation, having faced a recession and a global pandemic, to now have a circumstance where the participation rate is at a record level, demonstrating the high levels of confidence that have been established across the Australian economy both in consumers and businesses. There is still a job to be done; we don't deny that there is still very clearly a job to be done to continue to grow employment. That is why we continue support, be it programs like JobTrainer, be it programs like HomeBuilder, be it subsidies for apprenticeships and traineeships. These are all important initiatives— (Time expired)