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Newsletter Number 37 - October 2006 |
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DO YOU WANT TO CONTINUE TO RECEIVE HUM-BYTES? If not, please click here to cancel. DID YOU KNOW? Some interesting statistics from Australian Jobs 2006 (Department of Employment & Workplace Relations)The Northern Territory has a small labour market with less than 100 000 people employed (about 1% of Australian workers). The largest employing industries are Retail Trade, Government Administration and Defence and Health and Community Services which each employ more than 10 000 people. The NT has a higher share of Government Administration and Defence employment (3%) than its share of total national employment (1%). Employment has grown by 5.4% over the past 5 years (4800 jobs), with most new jobs being in Retail Trade, Property and Business Services and Health and Community Services. The Territory's workforce has a slightly lower proportion of workers (34%) in the 45 years or older age group compared with 36% for the Australian workforce. About 17% of workers are younger than 25 years. About 1 in 5 workers has a Bachelor degree or higher qualification and the same number hold Certificate III/IV qualifications. Half do not hold post school qualifications. A relatively low proportion (about 22%) of NT Workers are employed part-time compared with 29% of Australian workers overall. About 46% of workers in the NT are female. The Health and Community Services sector in the NT employs 10 200 people or 10.6% of the total. This represents and increase of 2200 people or 27.7% in a 5 year period. Where are the new jobs? There were around 998 000 jobs created in Australia in the 5 years to February 2006, with 4 industries accounting for 2/3 of all new jobs (660 800). The largest jobs growth was in:
Where will the new jobs be 2010-11? Five industries are expected to provide more than 80% of Australia's new jobs over the 5 years to 2010-11. Over this period, Health and Community Services is expected to experience the strongest jobs growth (2.8% per year or more than 150 000 new jobs over the next 5 years). Large numbers of new jobs are also projected to be created in Property and Business Services and Retail Trade, with each also increasing by more than 150 000 jobs (growth of 2.3% and 1.9% per year respectively). Construction (75 600 new jobs over the next 5 years), Accommodation, Cafes and Restaurants (45 200) and Personal and Other Services (42 700) will also contribute significantly to jobs growth. Jobs with very good prospects in Health and Community Services: Managers:
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HEALTH TRAINING PACKAGE HLT02 REVIEW JULY UPDATEPlease find below the link to the Final Health Training Package HLT02 Review Update Bulletin, the nineteenth and final stakeholder update on the Review. Click to download the HLT02 Bulletin - October edition.
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WHAT'S NEW FROM NARELLE (Narelle Higginson is Disability Coordination Officer at HSTAC)Narelle will be visiting Nhulunbuy on Wednesday 25 - Thursday 26 October 2006. If you would like to meet with Narelle, or have a chat, please contact her on (08) 8981 2550 or email her projects@hstac.com.au Review of Disability Services NT: Issue 4 of Review News - Disability Services in the Northern Territory is ready for publication next week. Features will include:
The next step in the process is to hold Validation Forums in Darwin and Alice Springs for stakeholders to have their say on the proposed review recommendations. Issue 4 of the Review News will provide details of the forums and when to RSVP. Make sure you forward this issue to families, carers and clients so they are informed about the review process and Validation Forums. For further information contact: Fiona Krahe, A/Senior Planning & Development Officer, Aged & Disability Program, Department of Health & Community Services. Phone: (08) 8999 2525, fax: (08) 8999 2488 or email: fiona.krahe@nt.gov.au 'Doing It Better' - Learning Disabilities Forum:14-15 May 2007 at Storey Hall, RMIT University's City Campus.For further information and to download the registration form visit www.latrobe.edu.au/equity/LDForum or contact Colleen Ray at C.Ray@latrobe.edu.au The Launch of the Welfare to Work Case Study Library: The Welfare to Work Study Library is now available to gather information about the impacts of recent Welfare to Work changes. Over the next year or two, this libary can be used by Australian Council of Social Services (ACOSS) and Council of Social Services (COSS) members to collect stories from people who are receiving payments and/or are looking for work. Organisations providing services to disadvantaged Australians are encouraged to participate. All case studies lodged on the online library will be available to all those participating in entering data. A feature of the library is that users can search other case studies by 30 fields to locate the more relevant case studies for their purposes. Before any case study can be lodged, the consent of the subject of the case study must be confirmed and a privacy form/factsheet is provided. To get started:
Disability Support Pension Recipients: Who Gets Off (and Stays Off) Payments? Lixin Cai, Ha Vu and Roger Wilkins, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research Abstract: There is a close correspondence between disability benefit receipt and labour market outcomes according to this study of Centrelink records. Entry to disability support pensions via unemployment benefits is associated with substantially reduced prospects of exiting the pension, while employment during this time is associated with increased success in staying off payments once an exit has been made. Click here for further information, and also see 562 K PDF File: www.melbourneinstitute.com/wp/wp2006n18.pdf The following information is from the Australian Disability Clearinghouse on Education and Training website www.adcet.edu.au Full Day Web Accessability Workshops in Sydney and Canberra: Sydney - 2 November / Canberra - 14 November These full-day workshops, run by Vision Australia, are targeted at web-development team leaders, corporate communicaions professional and business managers, along with content authors, web programmers and designers and web contract managers. The workshops provide an overview of accessibility issues and how to address them. It covers the World Wide Web Consortium's Content Accessibility Guidelines and their implementation and a consideration of assessment tools and techniques. Details and registration: www.visionaustralia.org.au/ais/webworkshops/ Writing for the Web Workshop - Melbourne: This practical workshop, also run by Vision Australia, focuses on enhancing the usability and accessibility of your web content and will teach you how to communicate effectively with your readers. When and Where: 2 November - Melbourne Click here for details and registration
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