Tony Smith (Casey, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training) Share this | Hansard source

The new member may wish to interject; it will only prolong me in my remarks. He will learn from his whip that Labor actually are trying to move through this rather quickly tonight. I advise him to get back to his emails on his computer. We want to see improved trades and apprenticeships. As we said, we will give qualified support to this bill. As the shadow minister said, taking away those incentives that provide funds for people in a real, tangible and meaningful way is a mistake. I would ask those opposite, as they go forward, to consider that and consider their trade training centre policy, which is not going to fulfil its objective.

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