What is Australia doing in terms of labour mobility and skills development?
CREAN: Well as you know, we have introduced a pilot program for labour mobility and seasonal work between a number of Pacific Island countries and Australia. We want to take the pilot program further into the future to develop labour mobility within the region. This will only happen if we give greater emphasis to skill development because increasingly these days, what businesses and infrastructure require is the development of the skills of an individual. What we have is the institutional structure for that here with this APTC facility. We want to develop a framework in which we can get a better understanding of the importance of labour mobility within the region. We would like to see it become an important part of the PACER Plus agreement but we need to talk it over with our other colleagues in other nations and understand their aspirations for this. Clearly we are prepared to have the mobility issue as an important part of PACER Plus. McMULLAN: I was talking today to some young men w
