Highlighting the skills needed to sustain Australia’s food security and essential industries Skills Insight today released its Workforce Plan 2026–2027, launched by the Hon Andrew Giles MP, Minister for Skills and Training, at an industry event at Melbourne Polytechnic. The Workforce Plan highlights the opportunities ahead to build a stronger, more sustainable workforce across the…
Low exposure to industry and career awareness Imogen Coe currently works on a dairy farm in NSW where they milk 260-280 cows a year. She had no family background in farming and minimal exposure at school yet has been active in pursuing a career in agriculture. “I’m a bit of an animal lover, but I didn’t grow up…
Our Stakeholder Forum recently met face-to-face to discuss Jobs and Skills Council work priorities. The Forum brings together a group of industry leaders who together represent more than 70 unique sub-sectors across agribusiness, fibre, furnishing, food, animal and environment care. The group discussed productivity, regional and remote priorities, and skills leadership to help guide Skills…
Skills Insight has released its Workforce Plan 2025–2026. The plan sets out a shared vision of workforce priorities and strategies to address key challenges and skill needs across the agribusiness, fibre, furnishing, food, animal and environment care industries. The Workforce Plan was formally launched by the Hon Andrew Giles MP, Minister for Skills and Training, at Skills Insight’s…
One of the key pieces of work for Skills Insight as a Jobs and Skills Council is our Workforce Plan. This annual plan draws on our activities and consultations with stakeholders, along with existing data, to provide an overview of current workforce and skill issues and opportunities across the agribusiness, fibre, furnishing, food, animal and environment…
The 2024 Workforce Plan has being updated to consider all stakeholder feedback and submitted to the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR). Once approved, it will be published on our website. The Workforce Plan describes industry identified workforce challenges and skill opportunities to inform industry, government and the VET sector about changes needed to meet skill needs. It…
Thank you to everyone that provided feedback on the draft 2024 Workforce Plan or on your industry skills needs more broadly. Your real-world insights are crucial, so that we can work together to develop skills and training strategies and solutions. The document is being updated to consider all feedback, ready to be submitted to the…
The next Workforce Plan is currently under development and will be available for stakeholder review and comment at the end of March. Your feedback will be used to inform revisions, before the Workforce Plan is submitted to the Department of Employment and Workforce Relations (DEWR) at the end of April. The Workforce Plan describes industry identified workforce…
A key focus of our initial work as a Jobs and Skills Council (JSC) will be to develop a Workforce Plan to describe workforce challenges and opportunities across the industries we work with and develop appropriate strategies and advice to address these challenges. The Workforce Plan will be the centrepiece of Skills Insight’s work and…
