Andrew Wallace (Fisher, Liberal National Party) Share this | Hansard source

I rise to speak on this National Vocational Education and Training Regulator (Data Streamlining) Amendment Bill 2023, which the coalition supports in principle. However, before I do that I want to take a moment to tell the chamber about one education provider in my electorate who is doing extraordinary work in this space—that is, the Sunshine Coast Technical and Trade Training Centre based in Caloundra. This is a centre which partners with Caloundra State High School, Beerwah State High School, Kawana Waters State College and Meridan State College to deliver vocational education and training with high-quality industry based work experience. In 2022 alone, students completed a total of 11,500 hours of structured workplace learning, with the highest graduate apprenticeship and employment rate the centre has seen to date. In 2020 and 2021 they were named Fisher Education Provider of the Year at my annual Fisher Community Awards, and in 2019 construction trainer Rob Reid was awarded Fisher Educator of the Year for nearly 10 years of trade skills training. In 2020 and 2022 the centre was a finalist for the School Pathways to VET Award at the Australian Training Awards, and on five occasions the centre was named Construction School of the Year by Construction Skills Queensland.

This is a training institution that is getting it right. They offer programs in aviation that prepare students to operate drones and have partnered with CQUniversity to provide training in basic aeronautic knowledge and in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs. They offer a program in built environment and design—

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