Submission guidelines

There is no set format for a submission on the CSOL but, where possible, it should be in an electronic format. The publication of a submission on its website is not an indication that Jobs and Skills Australia endorses any of the labour market analysis, views or comments contained in that submission.

Submissions can be submitted until midnight AEST on 31 May 2024. See Publication of Submissions below.

Writing a Submission

Submissions should have an evidence base and clearly identify the data sources and other reference material. A submission should also:

Identify who the submission is from. If a submission is made on behalf of a business or organisation, it should identify the position of the person making the submission and, if relevant, the authority under which it is lodged.
Be relevant and relate to the experiences of the industry body, business, organisation or individual making the submission.
Be concise, generally no longer than four to five pages. Technical information can be included in attachments.
Highlight the key points and include supporting evidence (e.g. analysis of ABS and other survey datasets, independent labour market research) which is relevant to the feedback being provided on the draft CSOL.
Include information the submitter would be happy to see published on the internet.

Submission Content – Information and Data Quality

The draft CSOL is generated from the Jobs and Skills Australia Migration Labour Market Indicator Model and is released for consultation purposes only. The Model will be refreshed as more recent labour market and migration data is available. The final advice that Jobs and Skills Australia provides to the Government on the CSOL will also be informed by deep tripartite engagement, including the content of stakeholder submissions.

While submissions can cover most ANZSCO Skill Level 1 to 3 occupations, the draft CSOL identifies those skilled occupations for which Jobs and Skills Australia would particularly welcome additional data, labour market intelligence and stakeholder views.

Submissions can refer to the findings of published academic papers, labour market research and analysis, case studies, focus groups and interviews. Where submissions refer to surveys of members or commissioned surveys, please include background information on the data collection methodology, sample size and sample selection, and data quality measures. The Australian Bureau of Statistics website includes information on Data Quality.

Submission Checklist

The following checklist may assist you in preparing a submission to Jobs and Skills Australia on the draft CSOL:

Submissions from organisations on behalf of their members should include appropriate evidence or otherwise confirm that the data or views expressed are representative of the views of the members (e.g. businesses and workers in regional Australia).
If the submission includes new/unpublished or recently published quantitative or qualitative information, include details on the survey/s, other data source, and the methodology used to collect the information.
Quantitative and qualitative data and other information presented in the submission should relate to the Australian labour market and meet the following criteria:
Identify the occupation/occupations of interest, benchmarked to ANZSCO 2022 (please note if an earlier edition of ANZSCO is used). The submission should clarify if the data or information is specific to an occupation title or specialisation within a 6-digit ANZSCO.
Recent—data and information should relate to the current or future labour market.
Reliable—identify the data source including quantitative (e.g. survey), qualitative (e.g. case studies, focus groups and in-depth discussions) or other (e.g. anecdotal).
New—information provided to Jobs and Skills Australia for other consultation purposes (e.g. as input to the Skills Priority List) does not need to be re-submitted unless it was identified as confidential or project specific.
Standing and Provenance—please identify data sources and references and identify any conflict of interest.

Please note it is not necessary to include in a submission on the draft CSOL, labour market data and analysis published by Jobs and Skills Australia or the National Skills Commission.

Publication of Submissions

The Migration Strategy states that transparency is a guiding principle of Jobs and Skills Australia’s role in the migration system, and that Jobs and Skills Australia will submit its findings to Government and publish its analysis and recommendations.

To give effect to this transparency principle and to open access to information, it is generally expected that submissions on the draft CSOL will be published on the Jobs and Skills Australia website. However, Jobs and Skills Australia reserve the right to edit (e.g. to remove defamatory material and, where appropriate, de-identify personal or sensitive information), publish or not publish submissions on its website at its discretion.

If a submission is published on the Jobs and Skills Australia website, the information in it, including the name of the person lodging the submission can be searched for on the internet.

Alternatively, the first page of a submission can clearly state the content should be treated as confidential (i.e. an individual’s name will not be published on the internet), and provide a supporting reason. The option also exists to place confidential information in an attachment to a submission, with a request to keep the attachment confidential.

Confidential submissions on the draft CSOL will only be reviewed by the Commissioner and relevant Jobs and Skills Australia staff and will not be released on the website. De-identified summaries of these submissions will not be made public without permission of the submitter.

Any submission to Jobs and Skills Australia on the draft CSOL may be subject to a request under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Commonwealth).

Ownership

Ownership of all submissions received by Jobs and Skills Australia remains vested with the respective author(s) of the submission.

However, in making a submission to Jobs and Skills Australia you grant a permanent, irrevocable, royalty-free licence to allow Jobs and Skills Australia (within the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations) to use, reproduce, publish, adapt, perform or communicate to the public your submission on the department website, including converting your submission into a different format to that submitted for the purposes of meeting relevant accessibility requirements.

To the extent that your submission contains material that is owned by a third party, you warrant that you have obtained all necessary licences and consents required for the use of those materials (including for Jobs and Skills Australia and the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations) to use, reproduce, publish, perform or communicate to the public, and have made arrangements for the payment of any royalties or other fees payable in respect of the use of such material.

Privacy

Submissions should consider privacy. The following resources may assist stakeholders in drafting a submission on the draft CSOL – the privacy page of the Office of the Australia Information Commissioner and the Australian Privacy Principles.

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