VET-FEE redress scheme extended for 12 months
Vocational training

VET-FEE redress scheme extended for 12 months

Skills Minister Brendan O’Connor will announce the extension on Wednesday,along with a promise to wave $1.6 million in indexation fees on loans for about 6,400 students hit with historical debts earlier this year due to an IT system glitch.

  • byLisa Visentin

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Chalmers sniffs the breeze on tax cut changes,with PM’s imprimatur
Opinion
Tax cuts

Chalmers sniffs the breeze on tax cut changes,with PM’s imprimatur

Only weeks ago,the treasurer insisted this was not the time to discuss the looming stage three tax cuts. Now he’s deliberately letting the talk run.

  • byMichelle Grattan
Urgent action needed to stop skills shortage
Editorial
Skills shortage

Urgent action needed to stop skills shortage

Alarming new figures say nearly half of all technical and trade positions in Australia don’t have enough skilled workers.

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The most in-demand occupations revealed as skills shortage strikes more industries
Skills shortage

The most in-demand occupations revealed as skills shortage strikes more industries

The annual skills priority list shows the number of occupations in shortage rose from 153 to 286 over the past year.

  • byDavid Crowe
10,000 VET students hit with historical debts
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Vocational training

10,000 VET students hit with historical debts

More than 10,000 students have been hit unexpectedly with historical VET debts by the tax office after an IT glitch meant they were held up in internal systems for as long as five years.

  • byLisa Visentin
States negotiating on $3.7 billion national skills agreement
Skills shortage

States negotiating on $3.7 billion national skills agreement

Skills Minister Brendan O’Connor said the federal government is prepared to provide $3.7 billion over a five-year period if it secures an agreement with the states and territories.

  • byLisa Visentin
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Thousands more foreign workers to help ease rising food prices
Immigration

Thousands more foreign workers to help ease rising food prices

A shortage of agriculture workers is driving up food prices,Murray Watt has admitted,as the government reveals plans to bring in an extra 9000 foreign workers.

  • byDavid Crowe
Labor to bring in tens of thousands more migrants as it eyes bargain with union movement
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Jobs

Labor to bring in tens of thousands more migrants as it eyes bargain with union movement

The government is considering increasing the annual migration cap from its current rate of 160,000 to somewhere between 180,000 and 200,000.

  • byAnthony Galloway
Business lobby boss wants wages in line with living costs in jobs summit agenda
Wage growth

Business lobby boss wants wages in line with living costs in jobs summit agenda

The chief of the Business Council has broken ranks with other industry groups and urged wages keep pace with rising living costs.

  • byAngus Thompson
Jobs summit,white paper ‘pivotal’ opportunity to address national skills gap:O’Connor
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Skills shortage

Jobs summit,white paper ‘pivotal’ opportunity to address national skills gap:O’Connor

Skills and Training Minister Brendan O’Connor says driving economic productivity is “not just about hard hats”,it’s about investing in all sectors of the labour market suffering skill shortages.

  • byAngus Thompson
Labor set to promote women to key roles in cabinet
Political leadership

Labor set to promote women to key roles in cabinet

Labor factional meetings on Monday are expected to confirm Clare O’Neil and Jenny McAllister as cabinet ministers.

  • byDavid Crowe andLisa Visentin