These extensions are claimed to support up to 4000 extra trainees and apprentices at a cost of $14.4m.
Tax
Evidence does not support the premise that small business payroll tax relief is an efficient jobs-creation spending measure.
Employment
While assisting interstate businesses to relocate to regional areas in Tasmania would support much-needed regional development, payroll tax relief is not necessarily the optimal incentive or policy lever.
Peak Body Funding
Measures include annual indexation for DPAC-funded peak bodies.
Neighbourhood Houses
Capital upgrades and increased recurrent funding for Tasmania’s Neighbourhood Houses.
Community Health & Wellbeing
The Liberals will continue to fund the Grassroots Mental Health programme with NHT and Wellways to provide mental health support through Neighbourhood Houses.
Additional Peak Bodies
Funding for three new Peak Bodies.
Industry Development Plan
The Liberals will fund TasCOSS and a joint committee of sector, peak body, and government representatives to develop a ten-year Community Sector Industry Development Plan.
Men’s Sheds Grants Program
$125,000 per annum for three years to continue the Men’s Shed grant program.
Out of Home Care (OOHC)
Increasing the Out of Home Care age to 21, and providing incentive payments to both foster carers and young people for completing their Tasmanian Certificate of Education (TCE).