The Business Council says creating innovation precincts will help underpin economic growth and create thousands of new jobs in emergent industries.
The business community is pushing the Albanese government to create a national series of special innovation zones that could attract investment and, in a bid to make Australia globally appealing and underpin thousands of new jobs in future industries.
Ms Westacott said the government, business and unions would be able to find common ground but had to focus on economic diversification, productivity and flexibility.and better living standards because organisations are more successful,” Ms Westacott wrote in an opinion piece for“The choice is ours. We can either be a country frozen in time, overtaken by our rivals, or a nation at the frontier accessing the opportunities of technology and wealth creation.
But unions are wary of an increase in migration, arguing employers prefer hiring foreigners instead of improving pay and conditions for Australian workers.“For every worker that you bring into the country, business should have a requirement to either train an Australian for that role or to help contribute into a fund to develop Australians for future roles going forward,” Australian Workers Union national secretary Daniel Walton told Sky News on Sunday.
Ms Westacott the development of future industries was crucial to determining whether Australia succeeded at decarbonisation and establishing itself as a top digital destination. On industrial relations, Ms Westacott said the summit needed to agree on restoring the role of enterprise bargaining at the centre of the industrial relations system.But changes had to deliver for both workers and employers, be accessible for different types of employers and be vastly simpler and easier to navigate.
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