To the Honourable Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled:

We the undersigned citizens respectfully submit that Labour Market Programs are vital to the future of unemployed persons and to the economic and social well-being of our community.

We the petitioners oppose the present freeze on the funding of Labour Market Programs which has led to a loss of student places and teachers' jobs.

We the petitioners call upon the House of Representatives to reject cuts to Labour Market Programs and:

To ensure that the Federal Government maintains a strong commitment to retraining programs for long term unemployed persons, including refugees and migrants, which provide both training places and a formal training wage;

To ensure that the Federal Government restores and maintains funding of all Labour Market Programs to at least the pre-freeze levels;

To reject any policy proposal that requires persons who are unemployed to complete diaries in order to obtain unemployment benefits;

To reject the simultaneous attacks on the wages of apprentices, trainees and other youth as well as the proposed restructure and deregulation of the apprenticeship and training system.

Your petitioners therefore urge the House of Representatives to reject the proposed cuts to Labour Market Programs and training systems.