Skip To Content Skip To Navigation

Media Centre

Education, Employment and Workplace Relations portfolio

The Hon Julia Gillard MP

Minister for Education. Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations

Minister for Social Inclusion. Deputy Prime Minister

17 April, 2008

Media Release

Joint Ministerial Communiqué

Today’s meeting of the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs and the Ministerial Council for Vocational and Technical Education marks the start of a new era of collaboration between Commonwealth, state and territory education and training ministers.  All governments are now working together to improve education and training in Australia, building on significant state and territory achievement.  Ministers welcomed this new approach which replaces the ad-hoc approach that has marked recent years.

For more information view the documents below:

Media Contact:
   
media@deewr.gov.au