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Speaker 1: The federal budget was handed down last week. It had

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Speaker 1: changes or policies that will affect almost every territory in

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Speaker 1: in one way or another. But what does it mean

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Speaker 1: for territory youth. Well, let's find out with Youth Works

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Speaker 1: Executive Officer Liz Reid. Liz, Good morning, morning, Matt. How

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Speaker 1: are you very well? Thank you, Liz. There were some

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Speaker 1: pretty big announcements in the budget about employment incentives for youth.

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Speaker 1: Can you tell us a little bit about those and

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Speaker 1: how it will affect some of our territory kids.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, i'd love to. Actually, the emphasis on jobs

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Speaker 2: and job creation was quite a delight for us. So

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Speaker 2: we run the Transition to Work Service, so that's for

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Speaker 2: young people fifteen to twenty four in the Darwin, Palmerston

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Speaker 2: and Casharina area. So for TTW, there's some really big

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Speaker 2: ticket items for us. So as of the first of

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Speaker 2: January next year, young people who leave school at year

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Speaker 2: twelve can pretty much we'll access our service a straight

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Speaker 2: away rather than having to have a thirteen week waiting period.

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Speaker 2: So on the fourth of January we expect to see

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Speaker 2: a whole heap of school leaders knocking on our doors.

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Speaker 2: So that's great. Some of the other items was the

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Speaker 2: wage subsidies for young people, and we welcome that is

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Speaker 2: for employers to put young people on. And the other

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Speaker 2: big ticket item for us was the investment into apprenticeships,

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Speaker 2: so I think it was like one point two billion

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Speaker 2: to subsidize up to fifty percent of an apprentices wage.

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Speaker 1: They really are some great announcements and I guess they've

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Speaker 1: all come off the back of the fact of this

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Speaker 1: global pandemic COVID nineteen, which we've been dealing with for

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Speaker 1: the last six months now. How has that impacted use

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Speaker 1: and job hunting.

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Speaker 2: It's been. I think we've been incredibly fortunate in the

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Speaker 2: Northern Territory that our restrictions were eased a lot sooner

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Speaker 2: than some of the other states and territories. At Youth

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Speaker 2: Works at the moment, we've got approximately three hundred and

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Speaker 2: eighty young people using our service, and we saw an

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Speaker 2: increase in May to bump those numbers up of about

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Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty. So there's quite a lot of

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Speaker 2: youth or there's high use unemployment, but there's also underemployment.

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Speaker 2: So young people who were on casual wages were the

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Speaker 2: first ones to lose their position. And hence looking for

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Speaker 2: new job opportunities.

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Speaker 1: And Liz, I imagine it would have been quite tough

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Speaker 1: for a lot of those young people within that age bracket,

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Speaker 1: because a lot of those industries hit the hardest when

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Speaker 1: we went into to lockdown businesses like hospitality and retail

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Speaker 1: and tourism. There are a lot of key industries that

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Speaker 1: our young Territorians are working in or seeking employment in.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a large number of young people who

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Speaker 2: because of COVID lost their positions in those exact industries,

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Speaker 2: but we were able to pass way into other areas

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Speaker 2: of opportunities. So we saw an increase in young people

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Speaker 2: being employed in growth through Retail was a big one.

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Speaker 2: Warehousing and logistics was another area, and quite a number

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Speaker 2: of young people being employed in entry level roles at

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Speaker 2: trading roles in construction.

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Speaker 1: Did we see an increase in youth working from home?

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Speaker 1: Like so many of us adapted to, you know, being

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Speaker 1: able to work from home pretty quickly. Were young people

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Speaker 1: within that bracket as well?

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Speaker 2: Well? Absolutely? Absolutely, yeah, Yeah, there were young people doing

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Speaker 2: that and I guess we're still doing.

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Speaker 1: That, yeah, And it happened so quickly in a lot

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Speaker 1: of industries that perhaps people I guess didn't think that

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Speaker 1: it would be possible to work from home. I mean

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Speaker 1: we didn't have the strictest lockdowns in Australia, but there

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Speaker 1: were a lot of places that found innovative new ways

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Speaker 1: for Territorians to be able to work at home in

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Speaker 1: industries we perhaps didn't initially think of.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and not only that, but with some young people

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Speaker 2: utilizing services, I know at our end we did. We

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Speaker 2: were keeping young people engaged with the service the entire

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Speaker 2: time until we could come back to our face to

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Speaker 2: face appointment. So we were doing coaching sessions via messinger

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Speaker 2: or over the on the telephone, working interviews, social hour

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Speaker 2: just to bring young people together to get away from

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Speaker 2: the isolation. So people have been incredibly innovative.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Hayles. How are things now for our territory youth

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Speaker 1: compared to other studies and I know Melbourne are still

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Speaker 1: in some pretty hard lockdowns as you mentioned, We've been

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Speaker 1: pretty lucky that we reduced owns quicker. How are we

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Speaker 2: We're doing pretty well actually. So Youth Works is part

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Speaker 2: of a transition to work community practice. So we're one

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Speaker 2: of thirteen organizations across twelve regions and we constantly get

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Speaker 2: together and talk about the trends and what's happening and

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Speaker 2: how we can support young people and local employers. So

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Speaker 2: in terms of the territory, we're doing very well. Our

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Speaker 2: young people are amazing. They have the most incredible skills

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Speaker 2: and talent and are so eager to get into work

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Speaker 2: and do a good job.

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Speaker 1: What's the mood like among young job seekers at the moment.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it must be an incredibly scary time if

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Speaker 1: you're in year twelve looking to enter the workforce in

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Speaker 1: the next few months, you know, knowing that it looks

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Speaker 1: a lot different to what it was for someone graduating

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Speaker 1: twelve months ago.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, I mean our year twelve here is very

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Speaker 2: different to you twelve down south where they're starting to

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Speaker 2: go back to school. In some areas, our young ones

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Speaker 2: they're doing well. I know, we've been going out to

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Speaker 2: schools and engaging with school leaders to talk about what

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Speaker 2: the options post school. But I think that there's a

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Speaker 2: you know, I think they're ready for it, and soon

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Speaker 2: they're going to they'll have their exams, and I'm confident

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Speaker 2: at the schools and the teachers are preparing them for

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Speaker 2: the best plausible opportunities.

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Speaker 1: Liz, I've got an interesting text here on our mix,

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Speaker 1: one of one nine text line. It says I run

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Speaker 1: a local business. It says you say there are two

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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty young youths unemployed. I've advertised for both

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Speaker 1: apprentice Diesel texts and part advisor trainee, but no young

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Speaker 1: local Darwin kids have applied. Can you speak into that

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Speaker 1: at all?

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Speaker 2: Probably the young people that are coming to our service

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Speaker 2: haven't got the qualification to apply for those positions. But

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Speaker 2: I'm more than happy to talk to the employer if

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Speaker 2: they'd like to have a conversation, and maybe we do

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Speaker 2: have somebody within skill and talent that will be the

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Speaker 2: right person for the job.

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Speaker 1: Wonderful. Well, we appreciate that. Once we'll certainly see if

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Speaker 1: we can follow up with that text and see what

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Speaker 1: we can find out. Liz, Before you go, I want

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Speaker 1: to say, congratulations is in order I believe on your

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Speaker 1: Order of Australia for your service to people with a disability,

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Speaker 1: to youth and to social inclusion. Congratulations, thank you, thank you, Matt.

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Speaker 2: It was a true privilege and honor.

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Speaker 1: What was the ceremony, Like I hear it was at

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Speaker 1: a government house.

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Speaker 2: Is that right, Yeah, it was. It was on the

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Speaker 2: eighteenth of September, and it was a beautiful, beautiful Friday

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Speaker 2: barmy evening and was surrounded by some incredible people who

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Speaker 2: constantly contribute and will continue to contribute to the community.

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Speaker 2: So very very privileged and yeah, it was a great night.

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Speaker 1: Sounds like a very memorable night and one well deserved

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Speaker 1: as well. Liz Read, the Youth Works executive officer here

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Speaker 1: in the Northern Territory, Congratulations and thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for taking the time to chat to us this morning.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Matt had a great thanks. Leads you to