Phone
- 13 QGOV (13 74 68)
- International callers: +61 7 3328 4811 (+10 hours UTC)
Department of Employment, Small Business and Training
PO Box 15483
CITY EAST
BRISBANE QLD 4002
Small business enquiries
General small business enquiries
- Phone 1300 654 687 (Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 4.45pm)
- Email: smallbusiness@desbt.qld.gov.au
Grant enquiries
- Email: grants@desbt.qld.gov.au
Training enquiries
General training enquiries
- Phone: 1300 369 935 (Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 4.45pm)
- Email: training@desbt.qld.gov.au
- Regional offices
Apprenticeship and traineeship enquiries
- Phone: 1800 210 210* (Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 4.45pm)
- Email: apprenticeshipsinfo@qld.gov.au
*Calls are toll free from landlines. Calls from mobiles and pay phones are extra.
Mail (training, apprenticeships and traineeships)
Department of Employment, Small Business and Training
PO Box 15121
CITY EAST
BRISBANE QLD 4002
Queensland Training Ombudsman
- Phone: 1800 773 048
Back to Work program
- Phone: 13 QGOV (13 74 68)
- Online: Back to Work program contacts
Media enquiries
Email: media@desbt.qld.gov.au
Providing feedback or making a complaint
The Department of Employment, Small Business and Training (DESBT) aims to deliver quality services that respond to the needs of Queenslanders. To help achieve this, DESBT is committed to effective customer complaints management. The DESBT Customer Complaints Management Policy sets the direction for customer complaints received by DESBT, to ensure that customer complaints are managed consistently, fairly, reasonably and on time.
We encourage and appreciate feedback as it helps us shape our service delivery and values, and improve the way we achieve our goals and interact with each other.
DESBT's customer complaints process aims to be:
- fair
- timely
- easy to use
- confidential.
From 1 January 2020 our complaints process includes human rights complaints. The Human Rights Act 2019 requires public entities (including DESBT) to be compatible with human rights, as well as give proper consideration to human rights when making decisions.
If you believe your human rights have been breached due to an action of DESBT, you can lodge a complaint through our existing complaints process. You must allow at least 45 business days after you make your complaint to DESBT for the complaint to be assessed and an outcome determined.
For more information about human rights complaints, please visit the Human Rights Commission website.
Lodge a complaint or provide feedback:
- by phone within Australia: 13 QGOV (13 74 68)
- online via the Queensland Government portal
- in person by visiting one of our counters
- via a public interest disclosure.
You can submit feedback and complaints anonymously if you wish. However, please be aware that if you submit anonymously, we cannot contact you to get further information or to tell you the outcome of your submission.
How are complaints dealt with?
Complaints are managed depending on the type of complaint. Complaints about a DESBT product, service, procedure, practice or policy can be submitted either online or by completing a complaint form and mailing it to the relevant business area or lodging in person.
However, some matters have different management processes, and may be considered as being out of scope and so are managed differently.
Student complaints
Read how to make a student complaint about accredited training delivered by a registered training organisation.
Assistance with your enquiry or complaint
National Relay Service
If you are deaf or have a hearing or speech impairment, please phone the National Relay Service on:
- 13 36 77 (TTY/Voice)
- or
- 1300 555 727 (Speak and Listen).
Interpreter assistance
If you need an interpreter, contact the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS National) on 13 14 50.
Last updated 11 February 2020
