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Skills push as jobless rate nears 50yr low

The Morrison government wants to skill up the workforce with apprenticeship and training incentives. (AAP)

The Morrison government has made reskilling Australia a key plank of its pre-election budget, with a boost to spending on apprenticeships and tax incentives for small businesses to train workers.

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg's 2022/23 budget forecasts the unemployment rate to fall to 3.75 per cent later this calendar year to the lowest level since August 1974.

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