Peter Lindsay (Herbert, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I would like to invite the member for Banks to come to Townsville for the opening of the Australian technical college North Queensland in early 2007 and then he might understand just how good ATCs are going to be for this country. I would also remind the member for Banks that the good people of the technical college North Queensland sought to work with the Queensland government and the TAFE in Townsville and they were basically turned away. The ATC North Queensland would have used some spare premises at the TAFE college in Townsville but the TAFE said, ‘No, we would prefer to see them remain unused than have you there.’

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