The Morrison Government has marked World Diabetes Day by releasing a new 10-year plan to better support Australians living with all forms of diabetes. The Australian National Diabetes Strategy 2021–2030 will drive real improvements in the prevention, early detection, management, and care of people with diabetes.

TRADE APPRENTICES AT HIGHEST LEVELS EVER
The Government has delivered the highest number of Australians in trade apprenticeships on record. New department program data demonstrates Australian in-training trade apprenticeships reached 217,400 in July 2021, the highest number since records began in 1963.
Evidencing the positive impacts of the Government’s record funding, the number of Australians undertaking skills and training has surged with total in-training apprenticeships and traineeships for June 2021 at 347,266, up from 268,215 in June 2020.
UNIVERSITY HELP TO WITHSTAND FOREIGN INTERFERENCE
Updated guidelines to assist Australian universities strengthen their resilience to foreign interference risks, while protecting students, staff and research that contribute to Australia’s prosperity, have been released today.
The updated guidelines will better address how foreign interference threats have evolved since the initial guidelines were released in 2019 and will assist universities to better identify and respond to the risk of foreign interference.
INVESTMENT BACKS QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY FUTURE
The Morrison Government is investing $111 million to secure Australia’s quantum future, supporting the commercialisation, adoption and use of this new technology to create jobs, support Australian business and keep Australians safe. The Prime Minister last week released the Blueprint and Action Plan for Critical Technologies, identifying quantum technologies as one of the Government’s nine technologies for initial focus.
VISAS EXTENDED FOR AFGHANS
The Government has announced that temporary humanitarian visas issued to Afghans who supported Australia’s mission in Afghanistan, and who remain there following the August air evacuation, will be extended on an ongoing basis.
The decision provides an ongoing extension to visas issued to certified locally engaged employees from the Department of Defence, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the Australian Federal Police, as well as persons with other working relationships with the Australian Government and their families who were issued temporary humanitarian visas.