Ms ROSOL – Minister, a question relating to your role as the minister for women. Looking through the Tasmanian Women’s Strategy 2022‑27, there was an industry liaison officer that was funded under this strategy after the COVID-19 pandemic to encourage the role of women in the recovery of industries, to help them get into there.
I understand that role hasn’t been funded in an ongoing capacity. Having said that, looking at the gender budget statement, there are many industries that have a low participation of women in their workforce. Is that role something that you’d be willing to commit to funding further? If not funding that role, what are you doing that will help women to participate in those workforces?
Ms OGILVIE – I just want to make sure I really understand the role that you’re referring to. What did you say originally?
Ms ROSOL – It was called an industry liaison officer for women’s workforce participation. It’s on page 22 of the women’s strategy. It seems to have been a short‑term role. I would say there’s capacity for that kind of position to continue even though we’ve kind of moved on from COVID-19 financially, one hopes.
Ms OGILVIE – Let me see if I can find some information on that. Did you find that?
Ms ROSOL – I found a SOD for January 2023.
Ms OGILVIE – I’m just trying to get some information because it’s not clear to me that it’s not continuing. I will just try to find out for you.
Ms ROSOL – That would be great.
Ms OGILVIE – It could be a win. So, let’s see if we can find the information for you. This is the challenge of roaming across both outputs in one go. We’re jumping around a little bit. If we can’t find it immediately, we’ll bring it to you.
Ms ROSOL – I can put it on notice.
Ms OGILVIE – I’d also just like to, again, in the skills portfolio area, which is Mr Ellis’s, there is work being done on the Youth Jobs Strategy, which does assist with those issues as well. We’ll see if we can get that information for you. I’m sorry we couldn’t find it quickly.
