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Australia’s first sustainable Vocational Education and Training campus which is a fourth TAFE Queensland campus on the Gold Coast is now open and welcoming students

Education Minister Grace Grace has today congratulated local schools recognised in Queensland’s 2022 Showcase Awards for Excellence in Schools, with Pimpama State School and Robina State High School being named South East regional winners and Mudgeeraba Creek State School receiving a commendation

Six Queensland Police Service officers, three Fire and Emergency Services officers and four Queensland Corrective Services officers have been recognised as part of the 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours celebrations.“The latest recipients of these national honours have demonstrated exceptional levels of dedication to Queensland and to community safety,’’ Minister for Police and Corrective Services and Minister for Fire and Emergency Service Minister Mark Ryan said today.

Seven remarkable individuals and the state’s 160-year-old museum network have joined the illustrious ranks of Queensland Greats, honoured for their social, scientific, health, environmental and cultural contributions to Queensland.

TAFE Queensland’s Robina campus on the Gold Coast has been announced as one of three finalists worldwide for a sustainability-focused construction award in the World Federation of Colleges and Polytechnics 2022 Awards of Excellence.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and Treasurer and Minister for Trade and Investment Cameron Dick have today launched the Premier of Queensland’s Export Awards 2022.

Sixteen outstanding finalists have been shortlisted for the 2022 Queensland Reconciliation Awards, honouring innovative and impactful initiatives advancing reconciliation across Queensland.

Councils across the state are set to grow their workforce and welcome 400 new apprentices and trainees thanks to the Palaszczuk Government’s Skilling Queenslanders for Work First Start program.

The next generation of Queenslanders to take to the skies has been celebrated as the winners of the annual Aerospace Industry Education Awards were announced at Parliament House today.

Queensland’s top training talent has been recognised on the national stage, with an Atherton Tableland’s civil construction business and a Chinchilla trainee amongst the winners at the 2021 Australian Training Awards.

The Palaszczuk Government will support more than 8800 disadvantaged Queenslanders into jobs with $70.1 million in funding for its flagship employment and training program announced today.

Sue and Lloyd Clarke, the parents of domestic and family violence victim, the late Hannah Clarke, are the 2022 Queensland Australian of the Year award recipients.