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Jobs First: Delivering Jobs for Queensland
Jobs plan
In March 2009, the Queensland Government set a target to create 100,000 new jobs within 3 years.
To reaffirm this commitment, the government has developed Jobs First: Delivering Jobs for Queensland, which sets out a four-point plan to:
- build infrastructure - keep our record building program going
- develop skills for the future - ensure we are prepared for recovery
- support new and traditional industries - enable industries and businesses to emerge, grow and transform
- develop new job creation programs - assist unemployed Queenslanders to get back into work.
A consistent theme throughout this plan is an overriding goal to ensure that people have an opportunity to keep working, keep developing their skills and find opportunities to use their skills in different environments.
Jobs First includes is a wide-ranging package of proposals designed to keep Queenslanders working.
For further information, download a copy of the Jobs Plan Booklet (PDF, 1.34 mb) or phone the Jobs First Hotline on 13 25 23.
Job-creating building program
The Queensland Government is investing in the job-creating building program during the 2009-2010 financial year.
It's more than any other state and territory in Australia, securing 127,000 local jobs right across Queensland.
Work is underway across Queensland, including:
- building new hospitals and upgrading existing ones
- building more roads
- new police stations and better schools
- new children's playgrounds, walking tracks and swimming pools.
The program is about jobs for now, but it's also about training opportunities so that we can build and hang on to the skills that we will need in better times.
The new Building Queensland site is a great way for you to find out the building program is delivering in your local community.
Find building projects in your community.
Last updated 28 August 2009