House of Assembly - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
2022-05-03 Daily Xml

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Job Creation

Mr COWDREY (Colton) (16:28): My question is to the Premier. How many jobs will the Premier's government create over the next four years?

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Premier) (16:28): Our intention is to create as many jobs as we possibly can. We don't want to—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! The Premier has the call.

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS: It's not just the number of jobs we want to create, it's the types of jobs we want to create that really matters to us as well because what we saw throughout the course of the last term of government was job numbers change, but lots of the jobs were insecure ones. We saw a growth in casualisation. We saw a decline in the degree—

Mr Pisoni interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order, member for Unley!

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS: —of security of many, many jobs in certain sectors of the economy, and we don't want to see that. What we want to see is a growth in secure, well-paid jobs, which is why skills training and industry policy are so fundamentally important to the platform we took to the people of South Australia at the election.

The SPEAKER: A supplementary question from the member for Colton.