Mr GUNNER - 2010-11-25
- Can you please outline the government’s plans to increase employment and create jobs through improved economic literacy under the A Working Future strategy?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, I thank the member for Fannie Bay for his question. A great deal of work is being done with respect to the A Working Future strategy by the Department of Business and Employment.
It is my firm belief there needs to be economic literacy in remote communities about the way the economy works. There is a great disparity between what they see operating in Darwin and what is happening out there, and it is a fundamental difference in the state, make-up and size of the economy.
My department is undertaking a groundbreaking research pilot project into those understandings with remote communities about commerce, enterprise and how money flows into an economy. That will give a fundamental understanding of the ways we should coordinate future literacy projects about finance, because most of the financial literacy projects are about household literacy, about eliminating debt, and also banking. This work will inform the ongoing process.
Work is already happening at Galiwinku under the local implementation plans. We will be working with the shire, a number of other stakeholders and ATSIC to provide that information.
We are all about job creation, but we are not the only group …
Members interjecting.
Madam SPEAKER: Order! Member for Braitling!
Mr KNIGHT: … creating jobs. A new company, the Mills Employment Service, is creating jobs for candidates for federal elections; it is creating a job for the former CLP candidate. What is the acronym for the Mills Employment Service? It is MES, and you are in a mess, Leader of the Opposition, with what you have done. You and I are runners; I have been practising on the Esplanade, and you have been practising running from the media this week. That is your practice for the fun run, running from the media.
Members interjecting.
Madam SPEAKER: Order! Order!
Mr GILES: A point of order, Madam Speaker! Relevance to the question asked. He was asked about economic literacy in Indigenous communities. I would ask the minister to …
Madam SPEAKER: Minister, could you come to the point, please?
Mr KNIGHT: The Leader of the Opposition has a slight red tinge to his hair, perhaps we should call him the Scarlet Pimpernel – they seek him here, they seek him there. You need to front the media, Leader of the Opposition, clear the air …
Members interjecting.
Madam SPEAKER: Order! Order!
Dr BURNS (Leader of Government Business): Madam Speaker, I ask that further questions be placed on the Written Question Paper.
Members interjecting.
Madam SPEAKER: Order! Order! Member for Greatorex, you are on a warning.
Dr Burns: Second-rate ham jock! Second-rater.
Madam SPEAKER: Order, Leader of Government Business! I understand the Chief Minister has some extra information from a question.
Mr Conlan: I had your measure, pal, had your measure, mate. Absolutely had your measure. For a second-rate jock, I tell you what, it does not speak much of you.
Madam SPEAKER: Order! Member for Greatorex!
Last updated: 09 Aug 2016