Premium Content Subscriber only Hundreds more apprenticeships and traineeships will be created across Central Queensland, according to Federal Member for Flynn Ken O’Dowd under the $1.2bn Boosting Apprenticeships program. The Federal Government announced the expansion of the targeted wage subsidy program on Tuesday as part of the National Economic Recovery Plan. Mr O’Dowd said the Boosting Apprenticeship Commencements BAC wage subsidy program was now fully subscribed, helping to create 100,000 apprenticeships in less than five months. Federal Member for Flynn Ken O'Dowd at Northern Oil's Yarwun oil recycling plant. Picture: Rodney Stevens He said now the program would become demand driven for the next 12 months for apprentices and trainees signed up before September 30, 2021.