Hon CARMEL SEPULONI (Minister for Social Development and Employment) (remote): As the member knows, comparing different quarters of benefit statistics doesn't take into account seasonal spikes. But to answer the question, the number of people on jobseeker support for longer than a year in the September 2017 quarter was 67,890. The more relevant comparison is December 2017 to December 2021. The number of people who had been on a jobseeker support for longer than a year in December 2017 was 69,087, or 56.2 percent of total job seeker numbers. For December 2021, it was 116,634, or 62 percent of total job seeker numbers, a small percentage increase of 5.8 percent, which is encouraging given the global emergency we have been dealing with. I'm pleased to say that throughout 2021 we saw a record number—119,700 people—exit a main benefit and go into work, around 40,000 more than in 2017.