Brendan O'Connor (Gorton, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment Participation) Share this | Hansard source

The shadow minister in his first speech in November 2004 said—and I agree with him entirely:

Skills development and training remains a significant national challenge.

Indeed, it does. It did then and it does now. The reason it does is that the previous government did nothing to reduce the skills crisis in this country.

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