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Multi-billion federal plan to instil 'resilience and scale' in Aussie manufacturing | Sky News AustraliaThe $1.5 billion manufacturing plan to be announced by the federal government will seek to instil resilience and scale to Australian production, ensuring the sector remains competitive on the international stage says Industry Minister Karen Andrews.\n\nA major pre-budget speech will outline a major manufacturing initiative with government co-investment in six areas where Australia has a competitive advantage.\n\nManufacturers in resource technology, food and beverage, medical products, recycling and clean energy, defence and space fields stand to benefit under the new framework.\n\nMs Andrews said “there are some key sectors where Australia has been able to demonstrate that it has comparative and competitive strengths and there are also some sectors we have identified as important from a strategic point of view”.\n\n“What we’re trying to do with this strategy is build the scale that we need in key priority areas.' \n
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‘A step away from the deafening madness’: Alan Jones discusses good news stories | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Alan Jones takes a step away from the “deafening madness of politics and governments” to speak with Brisbane interiors retailer Shelley Boyd and Australian entertainer Todd McKenney.\n\nShelley Boyd is the founder of a family-owned online upholstery business which supplies Australians across the nation; the business has been running for 20 years.\n\nMs Boyd told Mr Jones her industry is all about “making investment pieces, quality timeless pieces that don’t end up as landfill”.\n\n“I think it’s all about educating Australians to support local manufacturing businesses,” she said.\n\nMr Jones also spoke with Australian entertainer Todd McKenney, who Mr Jones described as “amazing'. \n\n“He’s a dancer, he’s a singer, he’s a producer, he’s a choreographer – a superstar,” Mr Jones said.\n\nMr McKenney is the creator of Todd Masks, an online marketplace for Australian creatives who can make masks and sell them nationwide.\n\n“We built the platform, the online platform so these sewers don’t have to worry about any of the technical side of it,” Mr McKenney said.\n\n“I’m happy to say that we gave 99 per cent of the money to them, and to this date we’ve sold about $100,000 worth of masks, a credible success.”\n
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Australia needs a ‘culture shift’ to take on regional jobs | Sky News AustraliaLiberal Senator Amanda Stoker says Australians need to have a “culture shift” in order to meet the increasing number of jobs available in regional Australia with the people who are struggling to find work.\n\nIt comes as the agriculture sector struggles through a major labour shortage, meaning there are a vast number of jobs available in regional Australia; yet the nation’s unemployment rate continues to dip as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nDiscussing the issue, Sky News host Alan Jones posed the question as, “how do we match this army of unemployed people with the army of jobs that are available”.\n\n“We need to open our minds to the adventure that this can be, there is an awful lot of incentive,” Ms Stoker told Mr Jones.\n\n“This can be the new gap year in circumstances where people won’t go overseas for a while.\n\n“Part of it requires a culture shift, we need to be willing to go where the work is.”\n
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Queensland to invest $28M in Cairns to boost jobs, economy | Sky News AustraliaPremier Annastacia Palaszczuk today announced $28 million will be invested in building two additional walls in Cairns as part of a bid to grow the economy and boost jobs. \n\n“This is vital if we want to grow this precinct to capture the contacts for repair and maintenance of patrol boats right around the Pacific region,” she said. \n\n“Cairns is in the exact location we need this to happen”. \n\nMs Palaszczuk revealed one of the walls would be 80 metres, and the other 100 metres.\n\n“This investment could bring hundreds of extra jobs to the region,” she told the media. \n\n“We want to link very closely with the Great Barrier Reef TAFE to ensure that the young people can get the skills and training needed to work here. \n\n“It’s not just about providing the investment now, it’s about linking it with the skills and training that is needed for the future.” \n
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Regional producers providing incentives to unemployed Australians | Sky News AustraliaDeputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack is appealing to young Australians and visitors to venture into regional areas for employment opportunities to support themselves and the agriculture sector. \n\nHe told Sky News the Regional Australia Institute last week identified 45600 jobs in regional and rural areas. \n\nThe government will also change the rules surrounding fruit and veggie pickers to allow visa holders to extend their visas ahead of the harvest season. \n\n“We want to get those people off the coast, into the Hinterland, into the regional areas and taking those jobs. Those fruit growers need it, those farmers need it and it’s so important to be able to enable them to have that work so we don’t see fruit rotting on the trees,” Mr McCormack said. \n\n“Even despite everything that hit regional Australia and agriculture, the industry, the sector grew by a billion over the last 12 months to a $61 billion enterprise. \n\n“We want to make it a $100 billion by 2030, but we can’t do it if the fruit stays on the vine, we can’t do it if it stays on the trees, we need those workers, there’s good pay and incentive for them to do so. \n\n“So I say if you’re on your surfboard, you’re unemployed, you’re on the coast and you really want to improve yourself and help your nation, besides, have a look what’s available for you, there’s a lot of jobs available.\n\n“There are plenty of people who are collecting a welfare check who could better themselves … give them new skills, meet new friends and, as I say, get those adventures for life.”\n\n\n
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SPECIAL REPORT: Andrews government ‘didn’t like the optics’ of ADF support | Sky News AustraliaThe Victorian government avoided using the ADF for hotel quarantine because it didn’t like “the optics of Morrison government bailing them out”, according to Peta Credlin.\n\nA special investigation by Sky News host Peta Credlin probed hundreds of pages of evidence tendered to the COVID-19 Hotel Quarantine Inquiry which shed light on the decision not to use Victoria Police in hotel quarantine.\n\nThe investigation covered text messages, evidence, and ADF memos which detail the confusion between state and federal officials as to the role of Victoria Police and the defence force.\n\nMs Credlin said the evidence showed systemic failures by the Andrews Government she claimed was too focused on the bad optics of Victorians needing help from troops.\n\n“I'm told the Victorian government didn't want to use the defence force because it would look like they had failed on hotel quarantine,” Ms Credlin said.\n\n“That that they didn't like the optics of the Morrison Government bailing them out.\n\n“Every Victorian who has lost someone they love has a right to the truth of what happened, what should have happened and why it happened.\n\n“Not the half-truths out of this underdone inquiry where not enough of the hard questions were asked, where they had no access to real documents, only what little the Victorian Government would give them, and no chance to compel witnesses to the stand.\n\n“Only a full Royal Commission can do that.\n\n“What's happening now is a Premier using an Inquiry to scapegoat senior public servants to save his skin, and that of his ministers – Lisa Neville and Martin Pakula.”
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