Minister Assisting the Prime Minister and Cabinet,
Minister for the Public Service,
Special Minister of State
The Morrison Government is providing 10 Australian businesses up to $70,000 each to make it easier for licensed tradespeople and professionals to work interstate.
The latest round of Business Research and Innovation Initiative grants will help businesses complete feasibility studies to help solve challenges of the Automatic Mutual Recognition of Occupational Registrations, otherwise known as JobPass.
Minister for Employment, Workforce, Skills, Small and Family Business Stuart Robert said the grants will also help grow business and create jobs.
“We want to boost job opportunities for all Australians, no matter where they live,” Minister Robert said.
“These grants will open the job market for more Australians with more than 168,000 Australians each year to benefit from JobPass.”
Minister Assisting the Prime Minister and Cabinet Ben Morton said this is another way we are reducing red tape through the Morrison Government’s Deregulation Agenda.
“By removing the need for tradies and other licensed professionals to get another licence when they move state, we’re making it easier and cheaper for them to make that move,” Minister Morton said.
“By cutting red tape, Australian businesses can keep more of what they earn and boost the economy by $2.4 billion to our economy over 10 years.”
Assistant Minister for Industry Development Jonno Duniam said our businesses are world-class problem-solvers.
“Australian small to medium enterprises and start-ups have risen to the challenge to develop innovative solutions that improve information accessibility and sharing,” Assistant Minister Duniam said.
“The most successful feasibility studies will be eligible for an additional grant of up to $675,000 to develop a prototype or proof of concept of their solution.
“We want to help industry meet surge requirements, including natural disasters and construction booms.”
Businesses will develop feasibility studies to:
- develop software that will extract licencing information from various systems used across Australia
- develop a secure system that will allow regulators to access information about a worker’s licence status
- deliver a national real estate licencing exchange system focused on data collection and classification
- establish a national occupational registration and licensing information search service.
