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2023 Skills Priority List

The latest Skills Priority List is now released by Jobs and Skills Australia, showing that 36% of occupations assessed are in shortage. Skills including technicians and trade workers, and professional occupations (health, engineering, information communication technology and science roles) have…

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Local Disaster Management

RDA Ipswich & West Moreton Chair Cr Janice Holstein attended the Lockyer Valley Local Disaster Management meeting recently. Chair Mayor Tanya Milligan, Deputy Chair Cr Janice Holstein and Council and QPS officers discussed the issues faced with infrastructure during a…

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Greater Springfield Update

RDA Ipswich & West Moreton and the Springfield Regional Jobs Committee took the opportunity to catch up with Hon Shayne Neumann MP, Federal Member for Blair. We proudly presented Shayne with the recently updated Educate to Employ Report for 2023…

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Ignite Spark Program

The Ignite Spark Program aims to support Queensland-based small to medium sized innovation driven enterprises  with high-growth potential to progress the development of an innovative product or service closer to market.  In particular, the program aims to support innovation driven…

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2023 Festival of Learning

The biennial Festival of Learning is a week-long celebration of a Learning City whereby students showcase and celebrate learning across the 11 schools that make up the Learning Coalition in Greater Springfield. With over 30 events across the week, where the…

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Breakfast with Maha

Believe in yourself, back yourself and be true to yourself was the inspiring and motivating message received last week hearing from Maha Sinnathamby AM. From humble beginnings in war torn Malaysia, Maha Sinnathamby is known as a visionary and one of the…

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Pests and Weeds Symposium

Cr Janice Holstein Chair of RDAIWM and Darling Downs Moreton Rabbit Board attended the PAWS event (Pest And Weeds Symposium) in Dalby in the Western Downs. It brought together all things pests and weeds in Qld to learn best practice and innovation…

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Anticipating Future Skills

Was fantastic to attend the launch of the Jobs Queensland Anticipating Future Skills Series 4: Five-year projections to June 2026 yesterday. It was the first taste of the new data and what this means for the future of Queensland’s workforce. As always…

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