Address to Times Higher Education Conference

Acknowledgement of Country

Release type: Speech

Date: 26 September 2024

Ministers:

  • The Hon Andrew Giles MP

Fee Free TAFE enrolments smash targets

More than 150,000 Australians enrolled in a Fee Free TAFE course in the first half of 2024 and higher wages in the care economy have encouraged students to pursue careers in aged care and early…

Release type: Media Release

Date: 26 September 2024

Ministers:

  • The Hon Andrew Giles MP

Meeting of Skills and Workforce Ministerial Council

Joint communique

Release type: Joint Media Release

Date: 20 September 2024

Ministers:

  • The Hon Andrew Giles MP
  • The Hon Steve Whan MP
  • The Hon Jo Hersey MLA
  • The Hon Lance McCallum MP
  • The Hon Blair Boyer MP
  • The Hon Felix Ellis MP
  • The Hon Gayle Tierney MP
  • The Hon Simone McGurk MLA

Press conference, Canberra

SUBJECTS: More jobs created under the Albanese Government; Net overseas migration; Chris Ellison; CFMEU.

Release type: Transcript

Date: 19 September 2024

Ministers:

  • Senator the Hon Murray Watt

More new jobs created under Labor

An extra 47,500 jobs have been created in the last month, with the Albanese Government continuing to oversee the largest increase in employment in a single parliamentary term in Australia’s…

Release type: Joint Media Release

Date: 19 September 2024

Ministers:

  • Senator the Hon Murray Watt
  • The Hon Jim Chalmers MP

Accrediting more builders to safely tackle Australia's housing needs

The Government is making it simpler for more builders to get on-site faster, while ensuring their workers’ safety, to help address the nation’s urgent need for more homes. 

Release type: Media Release

Date: 19 September 2024

Ministers:

  • Senator the Hon Murray Watt

Address to the National Press Club - Q&A

DAVID CROWE, HOST: Well, thank you very much, Senator Watt, for that address. We have 18 journalists on the list to ask questions so there is plenty of questions on many…

Release type: Transcript

Date: 18 September 2024

Ministers:

  • Senator the Hon Murray Watt

Address to the National Press Club

***CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY***"Don't look back in anger"

Release type: Speech

Date: 18 September 2024

Ministers:

  • Senator the Hon Murray Watt

Engineered stone importation ban to start January 1

After years of harrowing stories of workers as young as 30 years old suffering and dying from silicosis, the Albanese Government is taking further action to protect workers from this disease.

Release type: Joint Media Release

Date: 18 September 2024

Ministers:

  • The Hon Tony Burke MP
  • Senator the Hon Murray Watt

Clean Energy TAFE Centre of Excellence for Queensland

A new TAFE Centre of Excellence will deliver innovative clean energy training to help set up Queensland as a skills leader in clean energy battery technology and training.

Release type: Joint Media Release

Date: 17 September 2024

Ministers:

  • The Hon Andrew Giles MP
  • The Hon Ed Husic MP
  • Graham Perrett MP
  • The Hon Lance McCallum MP

Standing up for seafarers

The Albanese Government is continuing its work to ensure Australian workers earn more, and keep more of what they earn, with $2.7 million committed to better protect seafarers from wage theft.

Release type: Joint Media Release

Date: 13 September 2024

Ministers:

  • The Hon Catherine King MP
  • Senator the Hon Murray Watt

Celebrating National TAFE Day

This National TAFE Day the Albanese Government is celebrating all the students, teachers and support staff who are part of our world-class Technical and Further Education (TAFE) system.

Release type: Media Release

Date: 10 September 2024

Ministers:

  • The Hon Andrew Giles MP

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