Skills Minister Brendan O’Connor says resetting negotiations over the stalled National Skills Agreement will be his No.1 priority, as Australia faces the second-worst labour shortages in the developed world.
Skills Minister Brendan O’Connor says resetting negotiations over the stalled $12 billion National Skills Agreement will be his No. 1 priority, as Australia faces theMr O’Connor said contentious policies pushed by the Coalition and rejected by states and territories, potentially including national pricing models and centralised allocation of in-demand skills, were being reassessed by Labor.
With the existing national agreements on skills and workforce development and the Skilling Australians Fund set to expire on June 30, Mr O’Connor said “stopgap” measures would be used to provide more time to negotiate. Negotiations commenced in 2020 after then prime minister Scott Morrison slammed the existing national agreement asMr Morrison said he would seek rapid change to the agreement by forcing states and territories to renegotiate the funding model and apply stricter rules on the way they spend about $1.6 billion in federal funding every year.
“We were among the many migrants from all parts of the world that were coming here for a better life,” he said. “I thought it was fitting I returned to a location where I first came to Australia many years ago.
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