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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">Submissions for the Jobs Ready Graduates legislation consultation are due today. The CSAA response is attached, with many thanks to the CSAA Executive, and especially
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">This letter draws also on the fabulous work done by our friends at CHASS, whose submission can be found here: </span></div>
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<a href="https://www.chass.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Response-to-Jobs-Ready-Graduates-draft-legislation-CHASS.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">https://www.chass.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Response-to-Jobs-Ready-Graduates-draft-legislation-CHASS.pdf</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We understand that many would like to respond to these proposed changes, but feel overwhelmed by other demands on their time. Both the CSAA and
CHASS are happy for their submissions to be used and tailored to the needs of other individual/organisational responses, if and as helpful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Information about the proposed legislation and submission process can be found here:</span><br>
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<a href="https://www.dese.gov.au/job-ready/job-ready-graduates-package-draft-legislation-consultation" style="margin: 0px"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">https://www.dese.gov.au/job-ready/job-ready-graduates-package-draft-legislation-consultation</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: var(--white); line-height: normal;">As CSAA Secretary Rob Cover notes, there might also be some value in sending copies of submissions to the three Centre Alliance parliamentarians
who were reported in The Age over the weekend to have "serious concerns" about the bill, as well as the Regional Education Minister who, on behalf of the Nationals, was critical of the regional inequalities (which he described as a "glaring and potentially
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); line-height: normal;">Senator Stirling Griff,</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: PTSerif-Regular; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(35, 35, 35)"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><a href="mailto:senator.griff@aph.gov.au" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(31, 83, 141); background-color: white; line-height: normal;">senator.griff@aph.gov.au</span></a><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); line-height: normal;"> </span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); line-height: normal;">Senator Rex Patrick,</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: PTSerif-Regular; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(35, 35, 35)"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><a href="mailto:senator.patrick@aph.gov.au" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(31, 83, 141); background-color: white; line-height: normal;">senator.patrick@aph.gov.au</span></a><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); line-height: normal;"> </span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); line-height: normal;">MP Andrew Gee,</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: PTSerif-Regular; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(35, 35, 35)"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> </span><a href="mailto:andrew.gee.mp@aph.gov.au" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">andrew.gee.mp@aph.gov.au</span></a><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); line-height: normal;"> </span></p>
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