Boccalatte, Kaylee, and Le Queux, Stephane (2024) Regional employment matters: current and future challenges of labour procurement in North and far North Queensland, in conversation. Labour and Industry. (In Press)

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Abstract

The 2023 conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) provided a platform for speakers from across North and Far North Queensland to address the challenge of labour shortages in the region and present forward-looking pathways to securing a workforce with the skills needed now and into the future. Based on the presentations delivered by the expert panel, including Riccardo Welters, economist from James Cook University, Claudia Brumme-Smith and Tracey Holmes from Townsville Enterprise Limited, Hurriyet Babacan and Margaret Marty on behalf of the Rural Economies Centre of Excellence (RECoE), this article in conversation with Kaylee Boccalatte, from the Burdekin Shire, will address workforce matters as they exist in rural and regional North Queensland and propose solutions to address the ongoing issue of labour and skill shortages. Through the lens of lived North Queensland experience, various policy implications are addressed within this paper. These include developing a framework for localised open data initiatives, a framework for agricultural education and skilling pathways, improving regional and rural liveability and, finally, proactive consultation.

Item ID:	82955
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	2325-5676
Keywords:	Workforce Labour Shortage Economy Regions Agriculture
Copyright Information:	© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
Date Deposited:	11 Jun 2024 02:48
FoR Codes:	38 ECONOMICS > 3801 Applied economics > 380111 Labour economics @ 50% 38 ECONOMICS > 3801 Applied economics > 380101 Agricultural economics @ 50%
SEO Codes:	15 ECONOMIC FRAMEWORK > 1505 Microeconomics > 150507 Micro labour market issues @ 100%
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