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Youth Pathways · Future Work · Practical Hope
Making the future visible.
I am Babbal Khehra, known as GP Singh in civic and professional work. I work across youth pathways, employment barriers, future work and civic ideas in Queensland, with a focus on how young people and people facing barriers can see real opportunities before disengagement becomes crisis.
How can young people believe in a future they cannot see?
Too many conversations begin after a young person has disengaged, dropped out, offended, lost confidence or given up. My work asks what can happen earlier.
Connect
Connect young people with training, work, people and places.
Build
Turn community insight into practical pathways.
Flagship project
Practical Hope for Future Work
Practical Hope for Future Work began as a Labor policy motion and has developed into a broader civic question about youth disengagement, employment barriers, visible opportunity and the future of work.
The idea is not presented as a finished answer. It is being tested, challenged and improved through conversations with people working across communities, employment, training, government and public life.
What I am learning
Working notes, not inflated claims.
Opportunity must be visible
Young people may live near hospitals, workshops, employers, training providers and future industries without seeing how any of them connect to their own lives.
Disengagement is rarely one problem
Food, family instability, abuse, transport, confidence, routine, disability, local conditions and opportunity can all matter.
Place matters
What works in Ipswich may not work exactly the same way in Logan, Inala, Bundamba or regional Queensland.
Small success is not the same as scale
A pilot can work with a small group and still fail to become a broader system.
Policy is not the same as a paper
The work only matters if it eventually becomes practical, applied and useful.
From the ground up
My perspective comes from working across employment support, training, automotive work, business development, community engagement, digital communication and public-facing projects.
I have worked with people facing barriers to employment, employers trying to find workers, training organisations, local communities and public representatives. Those experiences shape the questions I am now asking.
Current work
What the work is actually about.
Practical Hope for Future Work
Youth disengagement, visible pathways and practical prevention.
Employment barriers
What people facing disability, transport, confidence and access barriers experience in the real world.
Future work
How technology, automation and changing industries can become pathways rather than another barrier.
Civic participation
How people, especially young people, can feel that public life has something to do with them.