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Post by Gort on Nov 26, 2021 12:09:30 GMT 10
Jobs boom puts the recovery in top gearCANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos NOVEMBER 23, 2021: Australia’s economic recovery has been bolstered by the creation of 350,000 new jobs, helping almost 49,000 people move off JobSeeker welfare payments in just five weeks. Job vacancies in Australia are at a record level. The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ job vacancy rate, measuring the proportion of available jobs currently unfilled, is now more than 2.5% – the highest level since the series started in the late 1970s.The Australian government has delivered the highest number of Australians in trade apprenticeships on record.
New department program data demonstrates Australian mine training trade apprenticeships reached 217,400 in July 2021, the highest number since records began in 1963.
Evidencing the positive impacts of the federal government's record funding of skills and training, the number of Australians undertaking skills and training has surged with total in-training apprenticeships and traineeships for June 2021 at 347,266 up from 268,215 in June 2020.There some evidence that recent wage growth (over the year to the September quarter 2021) has been strongest in industries with the largest rises in job vacancy rates. Notable examples are professional, scientific and technical services (3.5%), construction (2.6%) and accommodation and food services (2.6%). findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/news/34625-australia-has-record-job-vacancies--but-don't-expect-it-to-lead-to-higher-wages
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Post by ponto on Nov 26, 2021 12:38:31 GMT 10
If you think good government is all about the economy then you are stupid....
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Post by Gort on Nov 26, 2021 12:46:24 GMT 10
LOL Labor luvvie number one can't deal with the economic facts, so goes with a personal attack. Don't worry Ponts, the other Labor luvvie will be along soon to add to the personal attacks.
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Post by caskur on Nov 26, 2021 19:44:03 GMT 10
People have lost jobs due to their stand on mandated vaccine.
I don't believe the first post.
During the very first nation-wide covid hard lockdown, I lost some of my favourite eating places.
I cannot imagine how many businesses were affected because Berejiklian messed up the Delta variant invasion.
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Post by Gort on Dec 17, 2021 19:06:16 GMT 10
Tariffs slashed, working holidays extended in UK-Australia free trade deal Almost $10 billion of tariffs between Australia and Britain have been abolished in a trade deal signed between the two countries that features a watered-down pledge to abide by their commitments to tackle climate change. The agreement between Canberra and London will also make it easier for people to live and work in both countries and removes a number of current visa restrictions.
Australian Trade Minister Dan Tehan inked the agreement with his British counterpart Anne-Marie Trevelyan in a virtual event from Adelaide on Friday morning, marking the first trade deal Britain has signed since Brexit.The federal government successfully fought off a British attempt to insert the Paris climate agreement’s goal to limit temperature rises to 1.5-2 degrees. But the parties did agree to keep to their commitments under the Paris climate agreement which is to reduce emissions by 26 to 28 per cent by 2030. Prime Minister Scott Morrison in September said the government had opposed including the Paris agreement’s specific temperature goals because the deal was meant to be “about trade”. The final text of the trade agreement “affirms” both countries’ commitments under Paris. It states the parties “emphasise that efforts to address climate change require collective and urgent action, and acknowledge the role of global trade and investment in these efforts”. The agreement will abolish tariffs on 99 per cent of goods worth almost $10 billion, while households will save more than $200 million a year on British imports. Coming into force on July 1, 2022, it will increase the working holiday visa age limit from 30 to 35 and give Australians and Britons a total of three years to live and work in each other’s countries, removing previous visa conditions. The Australian public sector will also be given the ability to attract contract bids from Britain, while British service suppliers will have access to visas to work in Australia without being subject to Australia’s skilled occupation list. The deal provides new access for Australian agricultural exports into Britain and lifts customs duties on Australian wine entering the British market.
Mr Tehan said it was the biggest free trade agreement with any country except with New Zealand.
“Over 99 per cent of all our goods get immediate duty-free access into the UK,” Mr Tehan told the ABC’s Breakfast program.
“And it’s exactly the same for UK goods here into Australia for our farmers, our beef producers, our sheep meat producers, our rice growers, our dairy farmers, our sugar cane growers.”
He said the deal “rights a wrong” that was done in 1975 when Britain turned to the European Union and “very much cut Australia off”.
“We’re back, and for both nations this is wonderful news.”
Ms Trevelyan said the agreement was a “landmark moment in the historic and vital relationship between our two Commonwealth nations”.Labor’s trade spokeswoman Madeleine King said the opposition was concerned the deal was done “without any consultation about its content or economic analysis of its impact on Australian jobs and exporters”. She said Labor’s concerns about waivers of labour market testing rules for migration have not been heeded by Mr Tehan in negotiating the deal. “It is clear that the government has failed to consult adequately with the business community, union movement or civil society,” she said. Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive Andrew McKellar said the deal would “greatly strengthen the ties with a key economic ally”. “When the agreement comes into effect, exporters are set to benefit from the abolition of 99 per cent of tariffs on Australian goods exported to the United Kingdom,” he said. www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/tariffs-slashed-in-uk-australia-free-trade-deal-20211217-p59icw.html
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Post by Gort on Dec 17, 2021 19:09:15 GMT 10
Meanwhile, Unemployment fell from 5.2pc in October to 4.6pc in November, seasonally adjusted The ABS estimates that 366,100 jobs were added between the two readings.
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Post by Gort on Dec 17, 2021 19:11:07 GMT 10
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Post by Gort on Dec 22, 2021 14:39:55 GMT 10
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