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Legislative Council - Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)
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Perfection Fresh

The Hon. T.A. FRANKS (14:41): My question is to the Minister for Employment with regard to the grant that has recently been awarded to Perfection Fresh. Given this company, that formally traded as D'VineRipe, was the subject of a Four Corners investigation into dodgy labour hire practices, and further claims this year about the mistreatment of its workers, what conditions has the government placed upon this generous, repeated grant that will ensure that the promised 100 construction jobs and then 100 ongoing jobs actually materialise, and that these workers in the ongoing jobs will be employed under conditions that do not exploit them, as has been the case in the past with this company?

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Employment, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation, Minister for Manufacturing and Innovation, Minister for Automotive Transformation, Minister for Science and Information Economy) (14:42): I thank the honourable member for her question. Of course, one of the very good things that we have done recently in this chamber was to pass the labour hire bill that went through yesterday. As the honourable member says, it is a good thing for this state to protect workers and vulnerable workers particularly, who are employed in precarious employment and particularly through labour hire areas.

I don't have details of the grant. I think off the top of my head, and if I am wrong I will come and correct it, but I suspect that grant is through minister Brock's Regional Development Fund, but I am not sure, and if it is something else, I am happy to come back and correct the record. I will certainly take that on notice and bring back any of the conditions that are required to be met that can be made available in relation to employment and the ongoing nature of that employment.

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