CANBERRA, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Thursday opened the jobs forum, following a two-day Tax Forum aimed at positioning the nation to make the most of the changing global economy. About 100 representatives from business unions government and academia gathered for the jobs forum. The major agenda items for the forum include the changing structure of the Australian economy drivers of jobs creation and investment manufacturing and the impact of the high Australian dollar. Gillard admitted that there were pressures in some industries, such as tourism and manufacturing, because of the strong Australian dollar, but said employment is growing on the back of an expansion in the mining and construction sectors. Gillard said she wanted a sophisticated discussion about the drivers of productivity, including innovation, improved business practices, higher skills, and "moving up the value chain" during the forum. Since 2007 there had been 30 million jobs lost across the world, but in Australia 750,000 jobs had been created, and Treasurer Wayne Swan said Australia could be optimistic about its prospects if it put in place the right policy settings to take advantage of growth in Asia and the terms of a trade boom. He said the Australian economy faced sectoral and regional pressures, as well as an impact from the high dollar, and it was hard to imagine Europe and the United States bring drivers of growth over the next few years. "(But) we are living in a very volatile international economic environment, underscored by events in Europe," he said. "The American consumer is not going to be a major driver of global growth in the future, but what we have in our region is really strong growth prospects," he said, pointing to China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and South Korea. "The key for us is to make sure that through everything we do in our domestic policy settings, we maximize the opportunities that come from that consumption boom which comes from the Asian century." Meanwhile, Gillard paid tributes to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, praising him as a man who changed our world. Silicon Valley pioneer and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has died after a seven-year battle with pancreatic cancer at age 56. Gillard told reporters she was saddened to hear the news. "Here we are at a Future Jobs Forum and the jobs of the future are going to be shaped by innovation and we hear the news of the loss of an incredible global innovator," she told reporters outside a jobs forum in Canberra on Thursday. We are high quality suppliers, our products such as Digital Counting Scales Manufacturer , China Digital Tabletop Scale for oversee buyer. To know more, please visits Digital Carat Scale.
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