The report details the impact of the nationally delivered, culturally responsive trauma informed training initiative Project Waterways, highlighting how the co-design approach strengthened the Aboriginal Community-Controlled Organisations sector, increased workforce capability to respond to intergenerational trauma and drove progress towards the National Agreement on Closing the Gap Target 12.

Education and training choices, skills, outcomes and pathways – like jobs, work and pay – are highly gendered in Australia. This report provides insights on these education and training divides. It shows that gendered patterns in education and training remain deeply entrenched, with little sign of change that could shift Australia’s occupational gender segregation.

Infrastructure and buildings are responsible for almost a third of Australia’s emissions. This report sets out a plan to overcome worker shortages that are holding Australia back from decarbonising infrastructure projects. It identifies the make-up of the workforce that can decarbonise infrastructure projects, while pinpointing four recommendations to help it upskill and grow.

An evaluation of the Specialist Training Program (STP) which aims to improve the future specialist workforce by extending non-GP specialist medical training into regional, rural, remote and private healthcare settings. The process evaluation provides an assessment of the STP to date and considers how the program could be improved.

The Regional Jobs Hubs network brings local employers and jobseekers together to create employment pathways and training and job outcomes for Tasmanians in their local communities. This paper provides an overview of the initiative. It finds that the network has had a real impact and provides a working example of a place-based network operating at...