Amanda Rishworth (Kingston, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Health) Share this | Hansard source

He is in the lucky dip as well. He said:

Providing young people in our region with education and vocational training opportunities that can lead to careers, is vital to the sustainability of our towns …

I think I will have time for one more, and I hope it is not you, Mr Deputy Speaker! No. This one is a short one. It is the member for Cowper again, in the trade training centres lucky dip. He said:

Educational opportunities are the way to transform our community.

What we have seen is coalition member after coalition member praising Labor's trade training centres out there in their communities, taking credit for them and then coming into this place and cutting the funding for trade training centres. This denies others schools and students the opportunity. Indeed, $950 million was ripped from this budget. It would be nice if the 40 coalition members who went out there praising these trade training centres in their communities would come into this place, stand up to the Prime Minister and say, 'We want this money back in our communities.'

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