Grey army and migrants to help tackle nation’s skills shortage

Grey army and migrants to help tackle nation’s skills shortage

The government has announced 36 outcomes including increasing migration and letting more aged pensioners work longer hours after the two-day jobs summit in Canberra.

  • byShane Wright,Angus Thompson andRachel Clun

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Look up,we’re on the verge of employment greatness

Look up,we’re on the verge of employment greatness

Professor Ross Garnaut has an inspiring message about Australia’s future:seemingly impossible changes are possible.

  • byRoss Gittins
Albanese government will increase permanent migration to record 195,000

Albanese government will increase permanent migration to record 195,000

More money has also been committed to try to speed up visa processing after the PM warned almost 1 million people were waiting for their applications to be decided.

  • byDavid Crowe,Angus Thompson andRachel Clun
Qantas boss Alan Joyce snubs his own airline to fly Air Force Albo

Qantas boss Alan Joyce snubs his own airline to fly Air Force Albo

It’s nice for those who were able to fly to Canberra for the jobs summit on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s private jet.

  • byKishor Napier-Raman andNoel Towell
How to play politics with $1.3 billion (a lesson for Albanese to avoid)

How to play politics with $1.3 billion (a lesson for Albanese to avoid)

When 400 companies got the bad news last week – they would not be getting a grant under the former government’s “modern manufacturing initiative” – it brought to a close a tawdry episode in attempted vote-buying.

  • byDavid Crowe
Albanese seeks to end the war but the battle has only just begun

Albanese seeks to end the war but the battle has only just begun

The PM opened the jobs summit with a call to end years of pitched policy battles,but he may be starting down the path into a political war.

  • byShane Wright
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Fears of industry-wide strikes risk jobs summit consensus on pay bargaining

Fears of industry-wide strikes risk jobs summit consensus on pay bargaining

Business chiefs urged the government to rule out the “alarming” prospect of industry-wide strikes under reforms that will go to consultation next week.

  • byDavid Crowe andAngus Thompson
Bargaining bombshells and billion-dollar TAFE boosts:The takeaways from day one of the jobs summit

Bargaining bombshells and billion-dollar TAFE boosts:The takeaways from day one of the jobs summit

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese urged attendees not to “dig deeper trenches on the same old battlefields” but to try and strive for common goals.

Australia needs vast investment in renewables to escape economic funk:Garnaut

Australia needs vast investment in renewables to escape economic funk:Garnaut

In his keynote speech to the summit’s leaders,the eminent economist says Australia has five “crucial advantages” that could overcome eye-watering debt.

  • byPeter Hartcher
Compromise in the jobs summit,confrontation in the foyer

Compromise in the jobs summit,confrontation in the foyer

The jobs summit promised collaboration,not conflict,but in parliament’s marble foyer two feuding sides held one very public tete-a-tete.

  • byNick Bonyhady
‘Seize the moment’:Big business hopes for the best as Labor’s jobs summit kicks off
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‘Seize the moment’:Big business hopes for the best as Labor’s jobs summit kicks off

Business leaders are optimistic that real reform can be achieved at the jobs summit,despite historic tension between corporate Australia and federal Labor.

  • byAnne Hyland