Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. The Anglicare report released today is a timely reminder that we need to work with individuals and to view them as individuals. Does the government recognise this changing relationship between workers and employees, where the nature of work has changed substantially to more casual and part-time jobs and that a part-time job is in fact a way into longer-term employment? Why has the government not considered that the business wage subsidies they are going to be providing should also be made available for part-time work not just full-time work?