Footnotes

Skills Australia Amendment (Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency) Bill 2012 [Provisions]

[1]        Journals of the Senate, 2012, p. 2351.

[2]        Department of Industry Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education, Submission 10, p. 3.

[3]        See Australian Council for Private Education and Training, Submission 8; Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Submission 4; Restaurant & Catering Australia, Submission 5; Manufacturing Skills Australia, Submission 2; Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union, Submission 9.

[4]        Skills Australia, media release, 'Increasing Workforce Participation: the key to Australia's future economic and social prosperity', 5 March 2010.

[5]        Department of Industry Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education, Submission 10, p. 3.

[6]        Department of Industry Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education, Submission 10, pp 3–4.

[7]        See Department of Industry Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education, Submission 10, p. 4.

[8]        See Department of Industry Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education, Submission 10, p. 4.

[9]        Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union, Submission 9, p. 2.

[10]      Skills Australia Amendment (Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency) Bill 2012, second reading speech, 22 March 2012, available at: http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query%3DId%3A%22chamber%2Fhansardr%2F843adba4-b07b-4642-9c44-98beb898a1b5%2F0062%22 (accessed 30 April 2012).

[11]      Skills Australia Amendment (Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency) Bill 2012, second reading speech, 22 March 2012, available at: http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query%3DId%3A%22chamber%2Fhansardr%2F843adba4-b07b-4642-9c44-98beb898a1b5%2F0062%22 (accessed 30 April 2012).

[12]      Department of Industry Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education, Submission 10, p. 8.

[13]      Department of Industry Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education, Submission 10, pp 8–9.

[14]      Department of Industry Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education, Submission 10, pp 7–8.

[15]      Manufacturing Skills Australia, Submission 2, p. 1.

[16]      Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Submission 4, p. 1.

[17]      Department of Industry Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education, Submission 10, p. 9.

[18]      Queensland Department of Education, Training and Employment, Submission 1, p. 1.

[19]      Queensland Department of Education, Training and Employment, Submission 1, p. 1.

[20]      Professor Stephen Billet, Submission 3, p. 1.

[21]      Australian Council for Private Education and Training, Submission 8, p. 1.

[22]      Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Submission 4,p. 2; Restaurant & Catering Australia, Submission 5, p. 2.

[23]      See Skills Australia Amendment (Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency) Bill 2012, cl 10.

COALITION SENATORS' ADDITIONAL COMMENTS

[1]        Australian Council of Trade Unions, media release, 2 April 2012, available at: http://www.actu.org.au/Media/Mediareleases/SkillsshortageclaimsmustbeindependentlyinvestigatedbeforeAussiejobsoffshored.aspx (accessed 8 May 2012).

[2]        Queensland Department of Education, Training and Employment, Submission 1, p. 1.