Sarah Courtney,Minister for Skills, Training and Workforce Growth
The Tasmanian Liberal Government is delivering on our plan to help more Tasmanians gain access to training and become job ready.
The Job Ready Fund, which we announced during the election, will open on 1 July 2021, providing $2 million over two years to break down the financial barriers often experienced by job seekers in accessing the skills and training required to develop a career pathway and move into the workforce.
We committed to establishing the guidelines and parameters for this fund as part of our plan for our first 100 days. This is an important part of our plan to secure Tasmania’s future by ensuring we are helping Tasmanians into work, and that we have the skilled workforce we need to support our economy.
Young lambs enjoying the last of the evening light at Easter Dounie Farm, Perthshire APRIL saw pedigree sheep breeders hoping for an outbreak of common sense in the administration of the Premium Sheep and Goat Health Schemes, as the clampdown on vet visits precluded testing and threatened hard-won disease-free accreditation – at a possible cost to farm businesses of tens of thousands of pounds. At the centre of this storm was the SRUC, which stated that, in cases where a flock was due to have its three yearly test for Maedi Visna, but could not now do so, its MV free status would be suspended one month after the intended renewal date, and would not be reinstated until on-site testing can be resumed. Breed societies described this edict as ‘ridiculous’ and called for a much longer grace period between an unavoidably missed test and the loss of MV status – not least because the major breed sales of the summer could be severely disrupted by top breeders being excluded from th