Over recent years, regional Western Australia has faced increased challenges associated with ensuring the availability of a skilled and flexible workforce. It has become increasingly difficult to secure the labour required that would enable regions to meet their full economic and social potential due to the combination(s) of:" rapid economic growth;" employment demand;" inter-regional migration;"...

Stawell is a town of 5,737 people located in western Victoria. The local underground gold mine has operated for thirty years employing approximately 350 people at its peak in the last decade. In 2012, the mine's closure was announced because of reduced profitability caused by increased costs and the depth at which the gold needed...

The development of regional workforce development plans is a priority action identifi ed in Skilling WA - A workforce development plan for Western Australia (Skilling WA). Skilling WA provides the framework to build, attract and retain a skilled workforce and ensure that Western Australia has the capacity and capability for continued economic success.

The Australian government believes a National Career Development Strategy will help towards supporting individuals to make appropriate choices throughout their lives about education, training, and work and to manage their careers successfully. This Green Paper outlines a proposed way forward for a National Career Development Strategy. indicates why Australia needs a National Career Development Strategy...

Maurice Glasman, the founder of Blue Labour, would perhaps see some irony in having his ideas discussed in a Fabian Society forum. He is certainly hostile to the statism associated with English Fabianism in its classical era. Glasman also rejects much of the vocabulary of British, North American and Australasian proponents of ‘Third Way’ thinking...