The Commonwealth Government has reviewed the employer incentives it provides for Australian Apprenticeships and has made some revisions which commenced on 1 July 2019. The existing incentives for apprentices and trainees remain, but three new incentives apply. The Australian Apprentice…
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Young people in Australia experience higher levels of unemployment than the rest of the population. This is for a variety of reasons including a perceived or real lack of experience and skills, a mismatch between the supply and demand of…
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The complexity and importance of energy sits awkwardly with simple regulation-versus-deregulation arguments. The energy markets need a lot of rules to work at all; natural network monopolies require regulation to protect consumers who are stuck with the bill; but successive…
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Australia’s sluggish economic performance in late 2018 has continued into early 2019. In the first quarter of 2019, economic growth slowed to just 1.8% over the year. This is the slowest rate of economic growth since the height of the…
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Australia needs an increasing supply of higher education graduates to meet the growth rates in high skilled labour over the coming decades. Pleasingly, new research from the Productivity Commission shows that domestic student numbers did increase from 2012 to 2017…
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The latest quarterly data release about apprenticeships and traineeships was issued by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) on 5 June. Like the last data release, there was some positive news, but overall the figures keep pointing downwards….
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Product safety is a serious business because it is fundamentally about ensuring Australians are unharmed. Standards Australia once described standards like guardian angels – mostly unseen but always working to keep you out of harm’s way. From the public’s perspective…
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Ai Group’s Clive Milham participated in an Industry 4.0 Advanced Manufacturing Forum delegation to Hannover Messe in April. This Forum of industry leaders and organisations has been formed to support Australian industry transformation and is the successor to the Prime…
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New research from the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute with CSIRO into the employment outcomes of PhD graduates shows that PhD graduates are gaining qualifications they intend to apply in the workforce, outside of academia. Over 50 percent of PhD graduates…
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There are countless opinions out there as to what’s going to happen in the future world of work, but the truth is, no one knows for sure. That said, we shouldn’t fear this unknown, or the change that is coming….
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