Action three: Build new skills

These skilled workers will help ensure Victoria remains at the forefront of this new approach to construction – enabling faster, more cost-effective and sustainable solutions, while keeping up with our growing state’s housing and infrastructure needs.

This improvement will assist employers and training providers to more rapidly and accurately understand where a worker’s skill levels are at – helping skilled workers avoid unnecessary training and fast-track learning for students.

The Academy, proposed by the Koori Caucus of the Yuma Yirramboi Council, will provide support to future First Peoples leaders in business, government and communities.

We will provide more support for domestic and overseas trade initiatives, including hosting the World Indigenous Business Forum in 2025.

Funding will also be provided to Kinaway Chamber of Commerce and Ngarrimili to help support more Aboriginal businesses.

This will encourage greater movement of people and ideas between the public service and business, by removing existing barriers that stop VPS jobs being advertised externally.

Digital Jobs will offer training in cutting-edge, in-demand, digital skills that are critical for innovation and technology adoption in construction and advanced manufacturing.

This will see industry partner with TAFEs and universities to design and pilot new short courses and on-the-job training.

These courses are focused on quickly addressing skills gaps in priority sectors: one recent partnership is delivering rapid training for medical and medtech researchers to improve their commercialisation skills.