The government announced that $55.2million over four years will be allocated to a youth training program in a bid to fight unemployment.
The scheme will pay employers in high demand areas a subsidy in return for supporting the training of young people and giving them employment. Employers would be drip fed up to $5000 over the course of a year provided that the employee remained employed or in training. Among the identified areas were aged-care, horticulture and agriculture.
The scheme replaces the widely criticised “Community Max” scheme, which spent $57million over two years on projects that included youths training horses which were later freed into the wild.
Government shovels money at youth unemployment
