Skilling the workforce
The most sustainable jobs of the future will require skills acquired through the humanities
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- Australia’s future workforce requires knowledge of our global context, linguistic diversity, critical understanding and analytical skills
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- invest in area studies, languages and other humanities disciplines
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- Since 1990, jobs for creative skills in Australia have grown at twice the rate of jobs for mining and manufacturing skills
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- back creative industries and creatives in industry to boost further jobs growth
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- Humanities research and skills make innovation and technology human-centred and sustainable
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- ensure all ARC funding programs support a diverse range of disciplines and approaches
- ensure all ARC funding programs support a diverse range of disciplines and approaches
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Research for Australia’s future well-being
Humanities research is a vital part of Australia’s research and development system
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- We need expertise that will strengthen democratic institutions, address pressing social issues including climate change, and support a broad range of future industries
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- advance research across all sovereign capabilities, not only manufacturing
- advance research across all sovereign capabilities, not only manufacturing
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- We need to understand how people use new knowledge, adopt innovations and respond to societal and environmental change.
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- include representatives of the humanities in decisions on research and innovation, and pressing social policy matters
- include representatives of the humanities in decisions on research and innovation, and pressing social policy matters
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Recognising First Nations Peoples
Advancing reconciliation with First Nations Peoples remains an urgent priority for Australia
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- Action the instruments that First Nations People tell us will help catalyse reconciliation.
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- progress Uluru Statement principles of constitutional recognition, treaties, and truth-telling
- progress Uluru Statement principles of constitutional recognition, treaties, and truth-telling
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- Indigenous knowledges must first and foremost serve Indigenous interests
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- partner with Indigenous and other scholars in teaching, research and wider economic and social engagement
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- Indigenous languages are a fundamental part of Australia’s social fabric and heritage
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- support Indigenous languages as part of a renewed national languages policy for social cohesion, economic inclusion and international engagement
- support Indigenous languages as part of a renewed national languages policy for social cohesion, economic inclusion and international engagement
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Strengthening Australia’s international engagement
Humanities skills and knowledge underpin Australia’s global standing and are central to diplomacy
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- Effective relations with China will require deep knowledge and expertise
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- commit to China studies and research as a sovereign capability
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- Australia has led the world in area studies in our region
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- redress Australia’s failure to sustain national-scale investment in areas as fundamental as Indonesian and Pacific studies to strengthen regional understanding
- redress Australia’s failure to sustain national-scale investment in areas as fundamental as Indonesian and Pacific studies to strengthen regional understanding
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MEDIA ENQUIRIES:
Director of Communications and Engagement
Carli Ratcliff
carli.ratcliff@humanities.org.au / 0407 438 002