First there was JobSeeker, then JobKeeper - now it's JobMaker

Centrelink doesn't hand out the Dole unless you are desperate and have no money saved. I remember somebody on one of these Forums, years ago, who got retrenched and the first place they went to was Centrelink who laughed at them.  They were most upset. The first place to look is the newspaper/online under "Positions".

Seek and ye shall find.

 

https://www.seek.com.au/jobs/in-All-Melbourne-VIC

Neferti wrote:

We need to get people off the Dole, but they are rather fussy about where they can get a job without moving house and how much money they will get. It's easier for some to sit around and whinge that the Dole isn't enough to live on.

Sounds like me at the moment but I ain't getting no social security.

We need to get people off the Dole, but they are rather fussy about where they can get a job without moving house and how much money they will get. It's easier for some to sit around and whinge that the Dole isn't enough to live on.

More Job Maker news  

https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/coronavirus-in-australia-whats-in-the-pms-new-jobmaker-plan/news-story/974ee0d2d42ebbd797721ed28479d343

Now Job Maker is all the go.



Prime Minister commits to overhaul of ‘fundamentally flawed’ vocational education system
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has unveiled his ‘Job Maker’ plan to overhaul vocational education and secure jobs for Australia’s future.

As the nation continues to move out of lockdown, the Prime Minister says the government will now focus on rebuilding the economy and “win[ning] the battle for jobs”.

Young Australians aren’t being enrolled in courses which will fill the jobs of the future, he argues, citing the complexity of the “clunky”, “unresponsive”, and “fundamentally flawed” vocational education and training (VET) system as a barrier.

While the Commonwealth provides states with $1.5 billion in VET funding every year, Mr Morrison says a lack of oversight causes course prices and quality to vary dramatically across borders.

“It is no wonder when faced with this, many potential students default to the university system, even if their career could be best enhanced through vocational education.”

Over the next three to five years, Mr Morrison said the federal government will work with state and territory leaders to make sweeping changes, but has not increased funding in the short term.

“I’m very committed to investing more, in a better system,” he said.

Tax and industrial relations reforms are also on the ‘Job Maker’ agenda, further details of which Mr Morrison said will be revealed in the weeks and months ahead.

The Prime Minister also restated Australia’s commitment to ongoing multilateral trade.

“We will not retreat into the downward spiral of protectionism,” Mr Morrison said.

“While a trading nation, we will never trade away our values or our future for short-term gain.”

https://www.2gb.com/prime-minister-commits-to-overhaul-of-fundamentally-flawed-vocational-education-system/

First there was JobSeeker, then JobKeeper - now it's JobMaker

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has signalled more federal control over skills training, accusing the states of running a system that is complex, clunky and unresponsive, despite massive federal funding going their way.
Mr Morrison, who will unveil a new "JobMaker" concept at the National Press Club on Tuesday, says the Commonwealth hands over $1.5 billion in funding every year for the states to run vocational training.
The arrangement is "fundamentally flawed and needs to change", Mr Morrison says. The money is untied, with no end date, no questions asked, no Commonwealth line of sight over how it is spent and a lack of accountability.
In his speech, Mr Morrison will draw on his experience with the America's Cup campaign in New Zealand in 2000 as he articulates a way out of the coronavirus crisis. Despite the enormous money in the yacht race, Team New Zealand worked at old chairs at a scuffed up table, in an office that looked like it had been saved from demolition, he says. When he commented on the surrounds, he was told that "in Team New Zealand there was only one question - what makes the boat go faster?"
"At some point you've got to get your economy out of ICU," Mr Morrison says. "You've got to get it off the medication before it becomes too accustomed to it.
"We must enable our businesses to earn our way out of this crisis. That means focussing on the things that can make our businesses go faster."
He rejects a return to protectionism, saying Australia must remain outward looking and open, and build on its strengths, including manufacturing, resources and agriculture, as well as science, medical research and space.
JobMaker includes a set of industrial relations reforms which he will reveal more about on Tuesday.
Mr Morrison said all states and territories except Tasmania have reduced their vocational education spend by an average of 25 per cent (calculated per capita for people of working age) over the past decade.
Vocational students faced a bewildering field of choices, with more than 1400 qualifications on offer, no visibility about the quality of different providers, and big variations in fees.
Last year, a certificate III in Blinds, Awning, Security Screens received a subsidy of $3726 in Queensland, $9630 in NSW and nothing in Victoria. In 2017, a diploma of nursing was subsidised by $19,963 in Western Australia and $8218 in Queensland and Queensland students ended up with debts twice those of NSW.
Mr Morrison's JobMaker concept follows the JobKeeper wage subsidy and the JobSeeker unemployment benefit.
His skills training push builds on work before the coronavirus - the Joyce review into vocational education was delivered to the government before the last election, and late last year Mr Morrison appointed Adam Boyton to head a new National Skills Commission to start work on July 1.
Mr Morrison said Mr Boyton would report each year on what skills were needed, replacing the existing lists for apprenticeships and skilled migration, and he would publish real-time data which would show emerging skills shortages and other trends and pressures.
Mr Morrison said the national hospitals agreement was a good model for the future of skills funding - with nationally consistent prices for courses.
He wants more transparency about how money is spent, better coordination between courses and what businesses need, and a more simple, consistent system.
Mr Morrison's speech comes as Deloitte Access Economics calls for major economic reforms that it says could significantly truncate the pain of the recession.
Deloitte has modelled three scenarios, from mild to harsh to severe, and partner Kristian Kolding says says to achieve the mild scenario Australia must first avoid a jump in cases, which that meant a significant improvement in testing and tracking technology so distancing and travel bans could be lifted. The government must also inject more stimulus, with the heavy lifting having to come from government now interest rates had no room to move.
And it should reduce red tape, support more digitisation especially in health and education, reform skills training, and embark on tax reforms, including the state-level stamp duty.
Skills had already moved from the hand to the head, and now must move from the head to the heart, he said, with more demand for the softer skills of caring, emotional connection and communication in the new economy.
"The government has focused on managing the crisis and buffering the impact, which I think they have done. The question remains now are they going to be able to find the mettle to stimulate the growth part of this scenario and let us come out of hibernation supported by a significant government stimulus," he said.

https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6769187/first-there-was-jobseeker-then-jobkeeper-now-its-jobmaker/?cs=14230