The government has announced 36 outcomes including increasing migration and letting more aged pensioners work longer hours after the two-day jobs summit in Canberra.
Professor Ross Garnaut has an inspiring message about Australia’s future:seemingly impossible changes are possible.
More money has also been committed to try to speed up visa processing after the PM warned almost 1 million people were waiting for their applications to be decided.
It’s nice for those who were able to fly to Canberra for the jobs summit on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s private jet.
When 400 companies got the bad news last week – they would not be getting a grant under the former government’s “modern manufacturing initiative” – it brought to a close a tawdry episode in attempted vote-buying.
The PM opened the jobs summit with a call to end years of pitched policy battles,but he may be starting down the path into a political war.
Business chiefs urged the government to rule out the “alarming” prospect of industry-wide strikes under reforms that will go to consultation next week.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese urged attendees not to “dig deeper trenches on the same old battlefields” but to try and strive for common goals.
In his keynote speech to the summit’s leaders,the eminent economist says Australia has five “crucial advantages” that could overcome eye-watering debt.
The jobs summit promised collaboration,not conflict,but in parliament’s marble foyer two feuding sides held one very public tete-a-tete.
Business leaders are optimistic that real reform can be achieved at the jobs summit,despite historic tension between corporate Australia and federal Labor.