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The government's Jobs and Skills Summit - the nation's biggest team building exercise - kicks off on Thursday.

The government's Jobs and Skills Summit will kick off in Canberra this week. Here's what to expect.

If there’s one thing Australia does well it’s a talk fest. 

We just love a yarn.

You name the cause, the plight and the illness -  we’ve toasted a cuppa to, and talked about it ad nauseam.

Cancer awareness? Women’s pay? LGBTQI+ visibility? Been there, eaten the stale cupcake cup and drew up “plans to fix the world” on extra large butcher’s paper. 

So will the Albanese government’s Jobs and Skills Summit - set to kick off in Canberra on Thursday - be any different to Bob Hawke’s 1983 “National Economic Summit” and Kevin Rudd’s “Australia 2020”?

Both planted the seeds for bigger ideas that never really came to fruition. Except firming up things like the Accord - “social wage” - and Bluey thanks to the advent of the ABC Kids network.

But this PM's jobspalooza is more diverse in terms of attendees, issues and stakeholders from previous attempts by Labor governments, here’s what to expect.