00:02Powering up Tassie's young tradies.
00:04The state government's giving apprentices and trainees a travel allowance for off-the-job training.
00:10The more we can encourage our people to really skill up in the trades,
00:16one way of encouraging them is to give them financial support, particularly at this time.
00:20It's wicked, it's so good to see.
00:22Down south, the opposition today also had finances in focus in the form of redundancy payouts.
00:30This is a mistake on a massive, massive scale.
00:33The government wants to cut 1,700 workers from the state service by 2030 as part of its budget repair.
00:41It's received 645 applications for voluntary redundancies so far.
00:47107 have been approved.
00:49But it's identified those payouts were incorrectly filed.
00:54These are people who made decisions about redundancies,
00:57made decisions about their families and their futures based on the information that their employer gave them.
01:02And now we can see Erica Betts got it wrong.
01:04This is a long-standing, long-running practice and there have been some changes that have affected the process.
01:10We can assure people that their post-tax payments will be what they were expecting.
01:16The government's also facing pressure over housing.
01:19A recent report from the state's Peak Housing Construction Body has found Tasmania is building homes at half the rate
01:26it needs to,
01:27to meet a national target.
01:29That's primarily due to a lack of land that's ready to be built on.
01:33If we don't have the water, if we don't have the sewer, there's no way we can get a home
01:37out of the ground.
01:37The government says it's working to unlock more land for housing across the state,
01:42pointing to its recent Southern Tasmania Regional Land Use Strategy as one example.
01:48Cabinet Minister Felix Ellis says the government is committed to delivering the homes that Tasmanians need.
