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.
⁃ $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
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:
Making workplaces more inclusive will help more Australians fulfill their aspirations. I'm grateful to the panellists who shared their experiences in the jobs market at the Jobs and Skills Summit today.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This afternoon's panel explored how we can take advantage of the opportunities of climate change and digital technology, so we can manufacture more things here and build a stronger economy.
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.
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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
Everyone should be safe at work.
At today's panel on fair, safe and productive workplaces we heard great ideas about how to make progress on these crucial issues.
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.
An excellent opening panel on Equal Pay and Opportunities for Women. Talking about how we can work together to remove barriers for women in the work force.
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.
There are a lot of challenges facing Australia right now. We won’t solve them by just digging a deeper trench on an old battlefield. We need new solutions, and we need to bring people together.
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.
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.
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.