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Central Queensland’s best training talent announced
Minister for Employment and Small Business and Minister for Training and Skills Development The Honourable Di Farmer
A not-for-profit community-based organisation supporting migrants in Biloela and Rockhampton has been selected as a Central Queensland regional winner in the 60
th annual Queensland Training Awards.
Minister for Training and Skills Development Di Farmer named the Central Queensland Multicultural Association Inc. and 10 other Central Queensland regional winners, recognising their significant contribution to training Queenslanders especially at such a challenging time.
“The Palaszczuk Government put investing in skills at the centre of our COVID-19 Economic Recovery Plan, and with over $1 billion in the recent state budget dedicated to training and skills, we are delivering on that commitment,” Minister Farmer said.
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Queenslandâs housing crisis will continue for years unless there is significant investment in the state budget to address it, LNP housing spokesman Tim Mander has warned.
Mr Mander said regions across Queensland, such as Mackay, were in the grips of a housing shortage because of a âperfect stormâ of several factors.
âWeâve had tens of thousands of people arrive back from overseas, weâve got interstate migration, weâve got low interest rates and weâve got home buyer incentives,â he said.
âWeâve had relatively little investment in social housing.â
Whitsunday MP Amanda Camm said department of housing figures showed there were currently 886 applications for social housing across Mackay Whitsunday â with 67 per cent of these classified as very high need.
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Mackay police have reported a five per cent drop in unlawful entry offences and an eight per cent drop in unlawful use of motor vehicle offences, coinciding with the launch of a youth crime crackdown.
Co-responder teams of police and youth justice workers have engaged with almost 170 young people since they began patrolling the streets of Mackay this year in a clampdown on youth crime.
The $5.2 million initiative was expanded to Mackay in mid-March, after being introduced in five other locations around the state last year.
Mackay police Superintendent Glen Morris said there had been a reduction in property offences, of which there were higher numbers of juvenile offenders committing those offences, during the current financial year.