"What is your plan for getting people with a disability into stable employment rather than continuing to leave them behind?" he asks.
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Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John asks his first question in #SenateQT, on unemployment rates among Australians with disabilities. #auspolpic.twitter.com/oaBW4OnCD7
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Senator Steele-Young notes: - Australia ranks 21 out of 29 OECD countries for unemployment rates for people with disabilities - 53% of Australians with disability are employed compared with 83% of all working-aged people
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"There are a number of things the government is doing to help improve the levels of employment of people with disability," Cabinet Minister Mitch Fifield says. "But clearly we do want to do better."
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