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Hundreds more Fee-Free TAFE and VET places for students in Tassie construction and housing courses
The Albanese Government, in partnership with the Tasmanian Government, is making hundreds more Fee-Free TAFE places available for courses in the housing and construction sector.
Revised standards support high-quality training for VET students
The Albanese Government is moving to lift the quality and integrity of the nation’s vocational education and training (VET) sector, with the release today of revised Standards for Registered…
Safer workplaces are better workplaces
National Safe Work Month is now underway, serving as an important opportunity to reflect and address the importance of safe workplace practices right across Australia.
Next steps to ensuring fair pay and conditions for working women
The Albanese Government is supporting an historic review of the undervaluation of wages in feminised industries, in the next step towards reducing the gender pay gap.
Joint investment in NSW adult literacy and numeracy
The NSW Government has launched its Adult and Community Education Strategy, outlining its plan to deliver crucial training and education in language, literacy, numeracy and digital to equip…
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…
Meeting of Skills and Workforce Ministerial Council
Joint communique
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.