House of Assembly - Fifty-Third Parliament, First Session (53-1)
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Jobs Accelerator Fund

Mr GRIFFITHS (Goyder) (15:41): The minister in his response noted the conversation that took place in the estimates sessions. Given that at that time the minister's response only detailed that a committee meeting was going to be held on 5 August (10 weeks ago) and the dollars are only available for the remainder of this financial year, surely you as the minister must be starting to scream at your staff and the people working underneath you to say, 'We've got to get this money out there and we've got to make it available for regional job opportunities.'

The Hon. G.G. BROCK (Frome—Minister for Regional Development, Minister for Local Government) (15:42): I may be some things, member for Goyder, but I am not a screamer. There have been two or three ways of looking at the criteria. It has come back to me on two or three occasions and, as I said just a minute ago, I am not going to rush into this. The guidelines will be out, but they are going through the appropriate approval process at the moment. I want to make certain—as do the member for Goyder, the member for Stuart and other members on the other side in regional areas—that we get best opportunities out there.

Mr Marshall interjecting:

The Hon. G.G. BROCK: For the Leader of the Opposition, as I indicated a couple of minutes ago to the member for Goyder, I would hope in the next two weeks that the guidelines will be out there and that we will be getting the applications out to the community, and I will include the member for Goyder in that.