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Bran Black

Why businesses are key to fixing Australia’s skills gaps

Cutting-edge and future-focused training and education is happening in Australia’s largest employers. If we are to meet our national skills challenge, we must encourage more of it.

When it comes to identifying and teaching new work skills, the data proves that business does it best. That’s why we need to make sure our national education agenda has Australia’s leading businesses at its heart.

Critical to ensuring Australia has a chance of meeting our greatest challenges – shifting the economy to net zero, building homes for a growing nation, keeping pace with warp-speed digital advances, and caring for an ageing population – is creating a more highly skilled workforce.

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Bran Black is chief executive of the Business Council of Australia

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