Rising out of poverty - apprenticeship revolution
In the biggest shake-up to apprenticeships for years, the Gillard government will also back a pay rise to take early-year apprentices off poverty-level wages - as low as $10 per hour.
The government has unveiled plans to slash bureaucratic "red tape" in a concerted move to establish a national system for apprenticeships - tackling concerns about a two-speed economy. For the first time, Australia will have a unified system instead of the current state-by-state framework, under reforms to be announced in Melbourne by Workplace Relations and Skills Minister Chris Evans.
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