Morrison announces wasteful and ineffective apprentice scheme   
2 November 2018
ACTU

The peak body for working people condemns the Morrison Government’s so called ‘bush wage’ – a hugely wasteful and ineffective band aid over the massive funding cuts made by the Abbott/Turnbull/Morrison government to apprenticeships and vocational education and training.

If rolled out nationally the new program is projected to cost $11 billion over four years with the aim of placing just 1630 apprentices.

Between Sep 2013 and Sept 2017 apprentice and trainee numbers dropped by a staggering 150,000. A 37% drop over the life of the Abbott/Turnbull/Morrison government.

The TAFE sector lost one-sixth of its financing in 2016, with operating revenues falling 16.8 per cent to $8.14 billion.



Quotes attributable to ACTU Secretary Sally McManus:

“The Abbott/Turnbull/Morrison Government refuses to invest in apprenticeship programs that we know work and instead continue to give handouts to big business.

“We have seen through the PaTH program, through CDP, and now this thought bubble, that this Prime Minister and his Government do not care about working people or developing skills, they simply want to funnel public money into private business.

“This program provides a perverse incentive to employers to stop and restart apprentices in order to get the subsidy. This program, like all other employment and skills programs created by the Abbott/Turnbull/Morrison government, treats workers as disposable.

“We need to change the rules to make sure young people get proper skills training which will set them up for a good steady job, not sell them out to big business to be churned through meaningless programs.

“The Morrison Government is demonstrating yet again that it will always side with business over ordinary working Australians.”   

I don't care about lab/lib but what's happened to TAFE just shows that neither side really cares about the local youth, instead choosing to import.

We need another party.

cods wrote on Nov 3^rd, 2018 at 11:09am:


What jobs do you think will be redundant in future? 

cods wrote on Nov 3^rd, 2018 at 11:47am:



Technology has always created more jobs not less and so called experts continue to say the opposite and consistently be wrong.

The current systems for unemployed workers put in place by this government are a massive waste of money. Throwing more money at the problem they created isn't going to work.

It's so profoundly dysfunctional that it cannot be salvaged. Scrap the lot and rebuild the systems from the ground up around a reinstated Commonwealth Employment Service.

Its time wrote on Nov 3^rd, 2018 at 12:03pm:



absolutely.... never ever thought otherwise....I think I can see the future sometimes..

can you not see all those driverless trains.....even buses   its just a matter of time....

the giants of the ocean  think QE11   float themselves.....the captain is basically  decoration..

we have come a long way since they invented the computer...

now it is full blast ahead......we are in for a huge shake up....

my vision of the future is a whole house being built in the factory...its brought to the site in 4 parts and BINGO...fully working house all mod cons..

cars more or less the same......

one thing I hope is not that far away is maybe creating human limbs that people have lost..regenerating eyesight and hearing.....its just a matter of time..

open the windows of your mind lefty..

a lot will mean jobs as we know them will vanish  but hasnt that always been the case......you just havent noticed.. ..

we have to accept these changes and not fight against them     find a way for almost all job to go on 24/7....3 men can work the one job   in 3 shifts....

it might not be what they like doing.... but thats what change is all about.....its called moving with the times...

and these are very fast moving times ...