Ms Anna Burke (Chisholm, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I also rise this evening to speak on the Australian Technical Colleges (Flexibility in Achieving Australia’s Skills Needs) Amendment Bill 2006 and note with some disappointment that no government member is speaking this evening on this bill—a bill which provides for the establishment of the Australian Technical Colleges which they lauded during the last election as something fantastic and new which would resolve our skills crisis. But not one of them is going to be speaking this evening. Several have spoken on the bill, but only a handful when you look at the number from our side who have spoken in this debate. Surely, if they are such advocates of this wonderful institution they should be here commending it and saying what a great service it is for our community.

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