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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Josh Butler

Common ground and concrete steps: five takeaways from Labor’s jobs and skills summit

Prime minister Anthony Albanese speaks to ACTU president Michele O'Neil and secretary Sally McManus during the jobs and skills summit at Parliament House in Canberra, Friday, 2 September, 2022.
Prime minister Anthony Albanese speaks to ACTU president Michele O'Neil and secretary Sally McManus during the jobs and skills summit at Parliament House in Canberra, Friday, 2 September, 2022. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

The federal government’s jobs and skills summit wrapped up on Friday afternoon, after two days of meetings, panels and negotiation between employers, industry and business groups, unions and politicians.

While many of the outcomes of the summit were neatly tied up before the event, the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, and the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, have trumpeted “36 concrete areas of action that will happen this year”, and a similar number of areas of further work.

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