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Articles in this issue include: 'Challenging casualisation' by Pat Forward (p. 8-9), in which the author highlights the significant challenges for the Australian Education Union (AEU) resulting from the way in which the casualisation of the TAFE teaching workforce will combine with the impending changes to industrial relations and to the VET system; 'Teaching VET in ACT juvenile and adult detention centres' by Mike Fitzgerald (p. 14), in which the author reports on how Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT) staff have been involved in the rehabilitation and training of prisoners for many years; 'Challenges of 'Skills for jobs and growth'' by Paul Reardon (p. 15), which reports on consultations around the Queensland Government Green Paper, 'Skills for jobs and growth' (indexed at TD/QLD 81.05); 'Visions for Australian VET' by Berwyn Clayton and Roger Harris (p. 16-17), which provides a report on the outcomes of a series of forums conducted by the VET Research Consortium, 'Supporting VET providers in building capability for the future', at which participants were asked to consider new structures and new ways of working over the next few years, and how to renew the VET workforce; 'Contracting out' by Penny Carosi (p. 19), which examines what has happened to New South Wales (NSW) Adult Migrant Education Service since 1998 when the Federal government decided to contract out the Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP).