A tax system that creates incentives for the private sector to flourish, improve economic growth and increase employment Reduce the size and interference of Government including local Government bureaucracy Freeing up finance availability Removing multijurisdictional compliance through harmonisation, utilising competition policy and COAG forums with each Minister delivering tangible outcomes in the next term of parliament. Participation in the nation's economic affairs by The ARA would like to see: Rewarding personal entrepreneurship to maximise job creation and wealth for families and local communities An increase in the numbers of self-employed people Reduce red tape and compliance burden on all business, with a particular effort to assist the small to medium retail sector Online The ARA believes the utilisation of online web presence for small business, coupled with the rollout of national infrastructure including high speed broadband and fourth generation wireless services, provides a critical platform for business to harness productivity and business improvements. The ARA has developed skills sets with Skills IQ and the National Online Retailers Association (NORA) work to support existing supply chain and business skills. With many commercial drivers creating and assisting change within the sector including the ICT sector developing products and supporting retail. The Government’s role should on commercial facilitation in this technology product rollout and skills building, encouraging and facilitating through existing skills development opportunities allowing market forces to do the rest. Education and training policies Schools The ARA supports a smaller federal bureaucracy for school education, and decentralisation of delivery to the states and schools. That said, there is a continuing role for the national development of curriculum and the need for the Federal Government to take a more active role in school to work (directly or via further education) transitions. The Federal Government has more financial stake in successful transitions due to the significant cost of funding welfare benefits should the student not successfully transition into further training or work. Specifically related to this the Federal Government should: Take greater leadership of vocational training in schools by increasing the dialogue and engagement between schools and industry, and focus on improving the quality and significant inefficiencies created by poor pathways between VET qualifications Improve the embedding of employability skills in the school curriculum Encourage and if necessary incentivise the states to introduce minimum requirements for literacy and numeracy to standards required in the workplace, using international benchmarks Continue current programs for connections (addressing disengaged early school leavers) and school partnership brokers under a redefined and more focused initiative School to Work
A tax system that creates incentives for the private sector to flourish, improve economic growth and increase employment Reduce the size and interference of Government including local Government bureaucracy Freeing up finance availability Removing multijurisdictional compliance through harmonisation, utilising competition policy and COAG forums with each Minister delivering tangible outcomes in the next term of parliament. Participation in the nation's economic affairs by The ARA would like to see: Rewarding personal entrepreneurship to maximise job creation and wealth for families and local communities An increase in the numbers of self-employed people Reduce red tape and compliance burden on all business, with a particular effort to assist the small to medium retail sector Online The ARA believes the utilisation of online web presence for small business, coupled with the rollout of national infrastructure including high speed broadband and fourth generation wireless services, provides a critical platform for business to harness productivity and business improvements. The ARA has developed skills sets with Skills IQ and the National Online Retailers Association (NORA) work to support existing supply chain and business skills. With many commercial drivers creating and assisting change within the sector including the ICT sector developing products and supporting retail. The Government’s role should on commercial facilitation in this technology product rollout and skills building, encouraging and facilitating through existing skills development opportunities allowing market forces to do the rest. Education and training policies Schools The ARA supports a smaller federal bureaucracy for school education, and decentralisation of delivery to the states and schools. That said, there is a continuing role for the national development of curriculum and the need for the Federal Government to take a more active role in school to work (directly or via further education) transitions. The Federal Government has more financial stake in successful transitions due to the significant cost of funding welfare benefits should the student not successfully transition into further training or work. Specifically related to this the Federal Government should: Take greater leadership of vocational training in schools by increasing the dialogue and engagement between schools and industry, and focus on improving the quality and significant inefficiencies created by poor pathways between VET qualifications Improve the embedding of employability skills in the school curriculum Encourage and if necessary incentivise the states to introduce minimum requirements for literacy and numeracy to standards required in the workplace, using international benchmarks Continue current programs for connections (addressing disengaged early school leavers) and school partnership brokers under a redefined and more focused initiative School to Work