This report looks at strategies for attracting and retaining skilled and professional staff to remote locations. It reviews issues including housing, utilities, lifestyle and community trends in remote locations. It reviews a number of strategies and suggests some practices that may have been overlooked.

Seasonal workforce management, the use of migrant labour and the provision of career paths in the tourism sector are three of the big workforce challenges tackled in this House of Representatives report. The report makes a total of 25 recommendations. It focuses on employment and training initiatives, labour shortages and skills demands, including the use...

This report seeks to clarify the term 'skill shortage' and to explain how skill shortages can be resolved naturally by market forces. It also provides some guidance on determining when a skill shortage requires public-policy intervention.

The committee argues that a more coherent approach needs to be taken to the provision of rural skills training and education. Among its recommendations, the committee proposes a national strategy on rural skills training, encompassing the school, vocational education and training, and higher education sectors.

This report examines employment opportunities and challenges in the Australian automotive component manufacturing sector with a focus on employment trends; skill shortages and recruitment and training strategies; labour adjustment measures required to assist redeployed and affected workers; and measures to support skills development, innovation and investment in the industry.