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Rishworth is also asked about how her call forAustralian employers who are struggling with serious staff shortages to hire job applicants with a disability:
There’s never been a better time for employers to think outside the box when it comes to finding people we hear from employers all the time.
One of the reports that has been done into disability employment is that community attitudes are actually one of the biggest barriers so seeing people with a disability get employment so that’s not having changes to the workplace, but that is the attitude that people have.
I spoke to a session of the BCA recently where I know they are really wanting to practically work with employer about how they might accommodate those living with a disability and make sure that the adaptions in place, but one of the things we actually need to change is not actually changing the workplace but actually changing our attitudes and that kind of thing.
I’m hoping in the lead up to the job Summit, to have a roundtable specifically getting employers and unions and also those living with a disability around the table to start talking about these are sort of fade into the Johnson we restrict me to say there’s got to be more than roundtables and changes of perception.
We’ve got to be really clear a lot of people are facing issues when it comes to housing, not just the cost of housing, but actually being able to get a house so when it comes to housing, we’ve said we will build more public housing that is a commitment through our Future Australia program.
Well, the tax tax you’re talking about is in 2024. So we’re not talking about that tax cut being at all related to the immediate pressures that families are facing right now.
It’s about how we can provide a whole of government response to help people in these difficult circumstances and as I said, through each budget, we go through looking at what our priorities are and I will be certainly working with other people in government and our other ministers to deal with that.