Steve Fielding (Victoria, Family First Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Vanstone, Minister representing the Minister for Vocational and Technical Education. I refer to the government’s election promise to establish 24 technical colleges and recent media reports that some colleges will be scrapped before they are even off the ground. Minister, would you please explain why, as the vocational training minister says, some colleges do not have community support, and why the government is dealing with bidders who cannot satisfy tender requirements?