Albanese to promise $10,000 for apprentices in housing construction

By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

The Albanese government if re-elected will provide a $10,000 incentive payment to apprentices to work in housing construction.

The promise will be announced by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese when he addresses the National Press Club on Friday.

The money would be paid in amounts of $2000 at the six, 12, 24 and 36 month stages of the apprenticeship with the final payment at the end of it.

The initiative’s cost of $626.9 million over four years is already accounted for in the December budget update.

Albanese’s speech, a section of which was released…

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