Training
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7th September, 2013 Labor talked training but delivered little. Closing industries required extensive retraining of workers but many programs failed to deliver new jobs and the government under-delivered on its promised flagship Trade Training Centre program. |
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14th February, 2013 Of 2650 Trade Training Centres promised by Labor in 2007, just 241 were operating as of 8-2-13. Only 12 have been connected to 100mbps high speed fibre as promised in 2007 (Senate Estimates) |
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12th August, 2011 Maryborough's new Trade Training Centre was unoccupied for eight months awaiting a fire certificate approval and decisions about what it should be used for. The Government is working on plans to utilise the school from February 2012, more than a year after its completion (Fraser Coast Chronicle) |
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10th May, 2011 BUDGET 2011-12 $909 million slashed from the Productivity Places Program Income quarantining to be trialled for teenage parents New National Workforce Development Fund costing $359 million ($200 million of which was provided last year) with industry required to make a co-contribution Quality Skills Incentive Scheme cut, saving $172.8 million $103 million cut from trade Training Centres program by reducing the number of centres further and delaying projects until 2015 or later |
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3rd February, 2011 Only 68 trade training centres are operational at the beginning of the 2011 school year, more than three years after Labor committed to provide a trade training centre at every high school in Australia. ANAO found that 70% of the 228 centres awarded $1.03 billion in grants had failed to meet deadlines for commencement or completion |
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24th June, 2010 Kevin Rudd deposed as Prime Minister and replaced by Ms Julia Gillard |
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11th May, 2010 BUDGET $661 million for skills training in Budget 2010-11 funded by $601 million rebadged from other programs including a $456 million cut to the Productivity Places Program |
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5th April, 2010 The Rudd Government's commitment that 10 percent of workers on its stimulus projects would be apprentices has not been honoured |
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7th September, 2009 Latest statistics show a 21.2% decrease in the number of new apprenticeships over the past year in traditional trades such as automotive, plumbing, construction and carpentry |
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3rd June, 2009 NCVER apprenticeship and trainee statistics record a 10% decline in the number of apprenticeship commencements in traditional trades from the March 2008 quarter to the December 2008 quarter |
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21st October, 2008 It is revealed in Question Time that Labor's promise of a trade training centre for every school will not be delivered as schools will have to pool their funding |
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8th February, 2008 Labor axes the Apprenticeship Incentives for Agriculture and Horticulture programme including $47 million from trainees and apprentices and cancels the $800 tool kit and $1000 course fee subsidies Labor axes the Living Away from Home Allowance to Australian School-based Apprentices, both announced last year by the Coalition Government. |
