Laura Smyth (La Trobe, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

It has stood to the benefit of those workers who are engaged in construction of those projects and I do note members of the opposition laughing and interjecting throughout this. It reveals to me their sense of priority, both for workers and for participants in our education system—people who we hope, on this side, will go on to secure jobs and have a valuable future in the Australian economy and the Australian community. Unfortunately it is not a priority that is emphasised by those opposite.

We are building trade training centres; we have made a significant commitment to that and will continue to do so. We know that those opposite chronically underfunded the education system and that their proposals now are to strip money out of the education system, specifically in trade training.

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