Up to 6,000 tradies will get free qualifications under a $78m federal scheme designed to tackle construction skills shortages.
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Workers with at least three years’ experience will have their prior learning recognised, and they will then be given “gap training” to reach their qualification, fast-tracking the process.
The skills and training minister, Andrew Giles, said the program would “back in workers who have the right skills for the job, but need that extra help to get the formal qualification they need”:
This program recognises the expertise they’ve already developed and helps them gain nationally recognised qualifications faster.
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For a long time industry and skills stakeholders have called for greater recognition of existing skills and alternative pathways to formal trade qualifications – our government has listened and is taking action.
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That’s a wrap of our live coverage for today – thanks for being here!
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Today’s top stories included:
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The Albanese government is set to unveil plans for a crackdown on the big tech companies to stop them delivering problematic or illegal content to vulnerable users.
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Angus Taylor has said he’s “deeply sceptical”, while Zoe Daniel says an algorithm switch isn’t enough.
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Queensland triple zero glitch fixed, minister says
Queensland’s health minister said a computer bug in the state’s triple zero system was just a “minor hiccup”.
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The service was forced to switch to a manual backup last week after a bug emerged during a system update to a new computer aided dispatch system.
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Staff were required to radio crews directly and write down information manually, rather than using the system.
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Health minister Tim Nicholls said that caused “some slowness in the system”, but that a patient would not have noticed any difference as a result.
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All low-acuity patients made to wait were monitored by the services’ clinical services hub.
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He said:
The alternative system kicked in.
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No triple zero calls were missed.
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The care that’s being provided by the (clinical services) hub and by the [Queensland Ambulance Service] was unchanged.
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He said a patch had been implemented on Friday and fixed the problem.
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The Coalition’s plan to criminalise flag burning and the defacing of historical monuments, and to enshrine 26 January in law as Australia Day, is not about trying to out-Pauline Pauline, leader Angus Taylor says:
It’s time to stand up for Australia, our heritage, our history.
Queensland government announces 2,200 homes for Brisbane site
Queensland’s government has signed off on a plan for 2,200 homes in Brisbane’s north, on a site that had been earmarked for an Olympics athletes’ village.
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The deputy premier, Jarrod Bleijie, announced five companies had won bids to build the riverfront development, at Northshore Hamilton.
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The area is listed as having a high likelihood of flooding and high likelihood of storm tide flooding according to Brisbane city council’s flood mapping.
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Asked if the area had a risk of flooding, Bleijie said:
That all gets taken into consideration as it does with anyone building along the river.
He said that public transport access would be taken into consideration by Economic Development Queensland, which owns the site and will be the development authority.
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Taxpayers will pay $154m to prepare the site for development.
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It will not include any dwellings designated as affordable housing; under Labor’s plan for the site, about 5% of dwellings were mandated to be let below market rate.
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The development will also include about 21,600 sq m of shops, dining and services.
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A car chase in Bondi this morning ended with the 21-year-old driver being charged with offences including driving recklessly and hindering police.
The man had allegedly been behaving aggressively on Gould St at Bondi Beach and when police approached him he jumped in his car and took off.
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NSW police said the chase continued through O’Donnell St in North Bondi before the car came to a stop and the man was arrested.
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He was granted conditional bail and will face Waverley local court on 22 September.
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Customers who were on a Qantas plane that was diverted from Sydney to Christchurch yesterday will instead be flown home today.
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There were reports of loud noises and flames coming out of one of the plane’s engines after it departed Queenstown.
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While there was a “suspected engine issue” on flight QF122, both engines were working and there was no emergency landing.
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A Qantas spokesperson said the company understood it “would have been a distressing experience for passengers”:
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One of our flights to Sydney experienced a suspected engine issue after take-off from Queenstown this afternoon and the aircraft diverted to Christchurch.
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Our pilots are highly trained to manage situations like this and the aircraft landed safely.
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Up to 6,000 tradies will get free qualifications under a $78m federal scheme designed to tackle construction skills shortages.
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Workers with at least three years’ experience will have their prior learning recognised, and they will then be given “gap training” to reach their qualification, fast-tracking the process.
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The skills and training minister, Andrew Giles, said the program would “back in workers who have the right skills for the job, but need that extra help to get the formal qualification they need”:
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This program recognises the expertise they’ve already developed and helps them gain nationally recognised qualifications faster.
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For a long time industry and skills stakeholders have called for greater recognition of existing skills and alternative pathways to formal trade qualifications – our government has listened and is taking action.
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Plan to criminalise burning of Australian flag about ‘national pride’, says Taylor
Tom McIlroy
As touched on earlier, the opposition wants new laws to make it a criminal offence to burn the Australian flag or damage war memorials.
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As the Coalition fights to regain standing against Pauline Hanson and One Nation, the opposition’s legislation would create a federal criminal offence for serious public desecration of the Australian flag, where a person is reckless or where their actions would incite hatred or violence, threaten public order or cause a public disturbance.
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It would also create a federal criminal offence for deliberately damaging, defacing, desecrating or destroying war memorials and other significant memorials commemorating Australia’s history.
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