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Title: $10,000 Cash For Apprentices Who Build Homes Post by whiteknight on Jan 24th, 2025 at 7:05am
Albanese to announce $10,000 cash for apprentices who build homes in National Press Club election pitch :)
ABC News Dec 24 2025 Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will return to the National Press Club almost a year to the day since he revealed changes to stage three tax cuts. (ABC News: In short: Apprentices who work in residential construction would get a $10,000 cash bonus under an election policy to be launched by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the National Press Club on Friday. The government has set aside enough for just over 60,000 apprentices, although a similar scheme for green jobs attracted only 2,200 applicants. What's next? The press club address will mark one year since Mr Albanese used a similar appearance to unveil changes to the stage three tax cuts. Apprentices who work in residential construction would get a $10,000 cash bonus under an election policy to be launched by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the National Press Club on Friday. The PM will frame the incentive as a double win, aiding "the next generation of tradies" while also providing a much-needed workforce boost to a construction sector that is struggling to meet the lofty goal of 1.2 million new homes in five years. "Right now, a first-year carpentry apprentice earns about two-thirds of the minimum wage … As a number have said, they could earn a lot more stacking shelves in their local supermarket," he will say, according to an excerpt of his speech released to media. $10,000 new energy apprentice payment broadened Apprentices will be able to claim up to $10,000 to learn skills such as solar panel installation or electric vehicle repair as part of their trade, as the federal government widens its "new energy" apprentice payment. "Too many leave training, because they can't afford to stay. Our government wants to encourage more Australians to get on the tools — and stay in construction." The scheme would pay apprentices in five $2,000 instalments over the duration of their apprenticeship, additional to any pay from their employers. The cost to the budget would be $626.9 million, with funding already set aside in the mid-year budget update. That would be enough to fund just over 60,000 apprentices. A similar Albanese government initiative for "green jobs" struggled to attract that many, with only 2,200 apprentices signing on for their $10,000 payment. That forced the government to broaden the scheme to cover all trades workers in the energy sector, provided they perform at least some green tasks. Mr Albanese will also announce plans to boost the allowance paid to apprentices who live away from home, currently set at $77.17 per week for the first year of training and lower for subsequent years. Housing pitch to feature in looming election The prime minister's press club address comes almost exactly one year after he used a similar appearance to announce his plan to reallocate the stage three tax cuts to include middle and lower earners. Though this broke a promise made before the election and repeatedly after it, it was well received by voters and the opposition waved it through the parliament after some grumbling, handing Mr Albanese a win to begin the political year. Stage 3 tax cuts redrawn The government will halve the stage 3 tax cuts for the highest earners and use the money to deliver an $804 tax cut across the board. While the apprentice payment is unlikely to be so consequential, it shows the government is keen to highlight its ambition to build more houses as a solution to the housing crisis, something it has sought to progress by paying states to reform planning laws and providing grants for social housing. Labor's housing platform will contrast with the Coalition's approach, which does include supply policies but will also allow first homebuyers to use at least $50,000 from their superannuation for a home deposit, an idea housing economists say will add further fuel to prices. But achieving the 1.2 million homes target, set in 2023 by a national cabinet dominated by Labor leaders, will be a tall order, not least because of construction workforce shortages. Achieving it would require an extra 90,000 workers, according to an advisory group of construction industry leaders set up by the federal government. Industry groups say more needs to be done to facilitate the migration of construction workers, especially given Australia's workforce participation is already at record highs and the level of unemployment remains low. Debate over TAFE sector The skills sector will also feature in the campaign, with Labor already promising to make its "fee-free TAFE" subsidies permanent. :) More workers needed to achieve home goal, industry says The construction industry warns the federal government's goal of building 1.2 million new homes in five years faces a significant worker shortage. |
Title: Re: $10,000 Cash For Apprentices Who Build Homes Post by whiteknight on Jan 24th, 2025 at 7:08am
Liberal deputy and skills spokesperson Sussan Ley has portrayed that policy as a band-aid neglecting structural problems in the sector.
Earlier this month, she penned an opinion piece arguing Australia needed to shed "vocational cringe" and encourage kids to study trades instead of being a "university nation to a fault." "We've been pushing our kids to go to university. It's led to a lot of them getting degrees they don't use, and debt they can't afford to repay," Ms Ley wrote. "In a world where Chat-GPT can pen an essay or a business plan in seconds, skills are fast becoming the most precious commodity in our economy … Who is going to build our nuclear submarines, or the houses we need?" Mr Albanese will say fee-free TAFE "has given hundreds of thousands of Australians the chance to learn the skills they need for a career they want, or to re-train for a new opportunity, without the barrier of paying for the course. "We want to expand on this success," he will say. :) |
Title: Re: $10,000 Cash For Apprentices Who Build Homes Post by lee on Jan 24th, 2025 at 12:00pm whiteknight wrote on Jan 24th, 2025 at 7:05am:
I guess green jobs are just good enough. ;) |
Title: Re: $10,000 Cash For Apprentices Who Build Homes Post by Bobby. on Jan 24th, 2025 at 1:57pm Just part of the box of tricks Albo brought out before an election. Dutton said it should have been done 2 years ago. ::) |
Title: Re: $10,000 Cash For Apprentices Who Build Homes Post by Daves2017 on Jan 24th, 2025 at 2:34pm Bobby. wrote on Jan 24th, 2025 at 1:57pm:
Both the labor and Lnp are playing the same election game as they did recently in Queensland with predictably the same result pending. The only thing that can save labor from its worse defeat in history is to change leadership. Albo, resign! For the good of the country and your party!! |
Title: Re: $10,000 Cash For Apprentices Who Build Homes Post by Bobby. on Jan 24th, 2025 at 2:37pm Daves2017 wrote on Jan 24th, 2025 at 2:34pm:
Albo is a lisping, ineffective leader who hasn't got balls like Trump. For Albo there are more than 2 genders - if you want to identify as a dog or a horse or a fish - you can. |
Title: Re: $10,000 Cash For Apprentices Who Build Homes Post by Daves2017 on Jan 24th, 2025 at 2:42pm
If I identify as a dog and need medical help will Medicare fund my vet bills?
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Title: Re: $10,000 Cash For Apprentices Who Build Homes Post by Bobby. on Jan 24th, 2025 at 2:46pm Daves2017 wrote on Jan 24th, 2025 at 2:42pm:
Of course and Albo would give you a free worming treatment and a dog collar. |
Title: Re: $10,000 Cash For Apprentices Who Build Homes Post by philperth2010 on Jan 24th, 2025 at 4:48pm Bobby. wrote on Jan 24th, 2025 at 1:57pm:
It should have been done a decade ago....Labor introduced the policy in their first term....The Coalition had 3 terms to do nothing....Dutton is a complete arsehole trying to use the same tactics as Tony Abbott....The Coalition do not even have a housing policy....Dutton the Dud!!! ::) ::) ::) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-23/property-council-backs-away-from-dutton-policy/104507216 https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/coalitions-housing-plan-exactly-the-same-as-labors-ministers-say/news-story/c416f8102b7db636e5d6d5c55ad3b6e2 |
Title: Re: $10,000 Cash For Apprentices Who Build Homes Post by Bobby. on Jan 24th, 2025 at 5:03pm philperth2010 wrote on Jan 24th, 2025 at 4:48pm:
None of those links prove very much. The fact is that Albo invited more than 1 million people here in his term when there was no housing for them. Hardly any of those immigrants were house builders. |
Title: Re: $10,000 Cash For Apprentices Who Build Homes Post by Jasin on Jan 24th, 2025 at 6:35pm
ALP BUYING VOTES AMERICAN STYLE
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Title: Re: $10,000 Cash For Apprentices Who Build Homes Post by Grappler Deep State Feller on Jan 24th, 2025 at 6:43pm
Well - chop off the mass immigration and replace it with Guest Workers on limited contract but guaranteed full rights of pay and conditions etc, and soon the demand will fall off and people will start buying HOMES again - the banks will take a bath, of course - but hey - they've had their run, so Pharchem.... we're not here to guarantee their shareholders perpetual profits or to perpetually drive up the costs of buying a home so the vultures can profit from it.
There's your first step ... let me ask yez all again - how is it that Australia is 'exporting education' - doctor training etc - and yet we somehow have to import physicians etc of a lesser god from the Third World instead of training up adequate numbers 'at home'? Just like gas and iron ore - we export all the education and then buy it all back at value added and as cheaper and shoddy goods... Don't get me wrong - my GP is Sri Lankan and she is a wizard and a lovely person who watches over my health like a mother hen... even goes crook at specialists for me ... they all bow to her wise advice .... but they are not all like that. |
Title: Re: $10,000 Cash For Apprentices Who Build Homes Post by Grappler Deep State Feller on Jan 24th, 2025 at 6:44pm Bobby. wrote on Jan 24th, 2025 at 2:46pm:
Free neutering..... Late Addition:- I have a housing policy - stop mass immigration to reduce pressure, put the Tent City Slickers to work building homes, offer real incentives to buy homes, control the banks in their headlong rush for endless profits, get a real plan going on how and where homing would be most effective and positive (don't forget the 'satellite' townships' around Campbelltown, NSW - they can commute to work! Ended up having no bus to catch then a train for an hour or more, costs rising all the time, no local work, and then houso and crime ridden slums) ... we need a PLAN for this country - not the current rubbish. |
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