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As usual they're all busy tweeting this as them doing somethingIt's that time of year again
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Yet kids can't get apprenticeships.
Francie Abbott got her design scholarship and the whole TAFE system got shafted.TAFE is the choke point at the moment. There needs to be multiple pathways into becoming a trades person rather than relying on Apprentice system. If you want to change careers and become a tradie, it is very difficult. Not many people can live off an apprentice wage if they have a family.
I know the issues well. I reached out to the WA gov to come up with a solution. They were not interested and I lost interest in helping.
As usual they're all busy tweeting this as them doing something
Yep every 6 months like clockwork they do a round of gaslighting to pretend indexation is a raise in paymentsI was just about to complain about this.
I'll save my seemingly annual complaint for January when they will undoubtedly boast again about the Youth Allowance increase to pretend that they are doing something even though it is automatically aligned with CPI.
Please, it is a simple question.
I'm not interested in banking regulations, or loan securitization, or whatever other instruments the banks create to extend credit to people. That is a side show - their time will come soon enough as every credit bubble eventually extends the same way.
But I ask the question again?
Does importing 1 million warm bodies in 2 years increase the demand on housing or not?
Yes or no?
Back in the old days the state government used to train a lot of apprentices.TAFE is the choke point at the moment. There needs to be multiple pathways into becoming a trades person rather than relying on Apprentice system. If you want to change careers and become a tradie, it is very difficult. Not many people can live off an apprentice wage if they have a family.
I know the issues well. I reached out to the WA gov to come up with a solution. They were not interested and I lost interest in helping.
We don't have a housing supply issue we have an artificial demand issue created by the people that control the housing supply because it lets them make more money
Build more houses and those same people will buy them and keep the cycle going
Labor don't want to fix that though, they're part of that group profiting after all
TAFE is the choke point at the moment. There needs to be multiple pathways into becoming a trades person rather than relying on Apprentice system. If you want to change careers and become a tradie, it is very difficult. Not many people can live off an apprentice wage if they have a family.
I know the issues well. I reached out to the WA gov to come up with a solution. They were not interested and I lost interest in helping.
You can work as an assistant or labourer for x number of years, then do a trade test.
Adult apprentice wages are also higher than regular apprentice.
Back in the old days the state government used to train a lot of apprentices.
Ive talked about this ready in a different thread. Renters are already finding away around excessive rent increases - plenty of them are share housing and many more have moved back with their folks. Plenty more would rather sleep in their car or tent.
Over extended landlords will soon find their places empty and those bills piling up with no income coming in. Leave the rents as is and let the market sort out the over extended landlords.
TAFE is the choke point at the moment. There needs to be multiple pathways into becoming a trades person rather than relying on Apprentice system. If you want to change careers and become a tradie, it is very difficult. Not many people can live off an apprentice wage if they have a family.
I know the issues well. I reached out to the WA gov to come up with a solution. They were not interested and I lost interest in helping.
If you can get a tradesman to offer you an apprenticeship, getting into TAFE is not an issue.
There are a lot of BS courses going through TAFE's these days.
The old method , where a kid would leave school early to become an apprentice wasn't so bad.
The low wages encouraged the toadies to take them on, and for the kids, at that age they were usually still living at home.
Its not like the kids aren't gaining anything from it. Probably better payback than a university degree in some cases.
I agree its harder for an adult to switch to a trade. Also hard to become a doctor if you've been a laborer for the last decade and have a family. Lots of other job switches are hard too.
Huh? You can't offer an apprenticeship if there are no places at TAFE.
Nothing wrong with the old method. It just needs to be augmented with other pathways. Don't compare becoming a doctor with becoming an Electrician or Plumber. Apples to oranges type comparison.
Yeah it is but people at the start don't know how to do **** all... and can't work on their own unsupervised...That is not correct for Electricians.
$638.20 per week is garbage.
state government used to do their own public works and maintenance .That was through the old tech school system?
Every day I wake up knowing that the end of Albo is one day closer.
Apples to oranges?
If you want to be a doctor, an engineer , a teacher.... you need to PAY to study before you can get anywhere.
Why should you get a full wage for someone to train you to be an electrician?
its always going to be a sacrifice. it sucks that the best time in your life to make the decision is when you're too young and stupid.
state government used to do their own public works and maintenance .