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Anthony Albanese
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Prime Minister of Australia. Member for Grayndler. Authorised by Anthony Albanese, ALP, Canberra.
Canberra, Australiaanthonyalbanese.com.auJoined February 2011

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There's been a powerful sense of optimism at this week’s Jobs and Skills Summit - and a shared determination to build a stronger economy that works for all Australians.
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⁃ $1 billion for more fee-free TAFE places in 2023 - Make available up to $575 million to invest in more social and affordable housing - A new $4000 income credit for working age pensioners - Improving workplace bargaining to get wages moving
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I’ve talked a lot about jobs and skills over the last few days - because getting this right is really important for our nation’s future. Here are just a few of the things we’ve announced:
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Thanks to the Brotherhood of St Laurence, he has recently found a job and things are looking up. Too many Australians like Nathan are shut out of work. It doesn’t have to be like this.
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Nathan lost his mum to family violence when he was just 10 years old. He developed anxiety and depression, and disengaged from school and his peers. He felt like it was impossible to imagine a future.
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Great to catch up with Fiona Simson, National Farmers' Federation President at the Jobs and Skills Summit. Australia's farmers are innovators and are a crucial partner in tackling climate change, making more things here and building a better future.
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Yesterday we announced 180,000 fee-free TAFE places. And that’s just the start. Today we heard from unions, businesses and educators on how we can skill up more Australians and help businesses fill workforce shortages.
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Skilling up more Australians for better paying jobs – that's our focus here at the Jobs and Skills Summit.
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We’ve got a lot to cover, but I’m looking forward to another productive day at the Jobs and Skills Summit.
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This morning I’m speaking with Nat and Kochie about bringing people together at the Jobs and Skills summit. Today there will be more important panels on tackling discrimination, boosting workforce participation, and the skills and training system.
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I’m speaking to Karl and Ally before the second day of our Jobs and Skills Summit. Looking forward to another day of bringing people together to build a stronger economy.
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Fantastic to have so many representatives of businesses, workers, governments and civil society here at the Jobs and Skills Summit today - engaging, listening and finding common ground. Looking forward to day two.
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Tackling climate change has the potential to create hundreds of thousands of jobs, with most of them in our regions. Our final panel of the Jobs and Skills Summit for today made progress on how we can seize this opportunity and make Australia a global leader.
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At the Jobs and Skills Summit we're working together, turning agreement into action, to benefit all Australians.
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The Jobs and Skills Summit has well and truly been kicked off by the Equal Opportunity and Pay session this morning. Here’s what we heard👇 What we are witnessing is a reframing of women's equality as an economic imperative. We have the evidence — it's time to do the work. 1/7
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For the first time in a long time, different groups of people are prepared to lay down their arms and look for some common ground – to agree wherever they can, and disagree respectfully where they must. Today is about building solutions and bringing people together. #jobssummit
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The panel this morning - on sustainable wage growth and the future of bargaining - brought forward diverse perspectives and ideas on how we can make sure that all Australians are paid fairly.
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We can’t fix a decade of inaction overnight. But we know that the summit has brought people together already. We’re searching to find common ground. That’s how you make progress. And that’s what the Jobs and Skills Summit is doing.
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We want to be a government that brings people together. And for the next two days at the Jobs and Skills Summit, we’ll be doing just that. Our goal and our responsibility is to carry the conversation to the common ground, where the work is done and the progress is made.
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Announcement: National Cabinet agreed yesterday to deliver an additional 180,000 Fee Free TAFE places in 2023 to help skill up Australians and tackle the skills crisis.
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Businesses and workers share common goals of growing the economy, creating jobs, improving skills and lifting living standards. Tonight I spoke at the Business Council of Australia dinner about working together to drive the change and progress Australia needs.
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