Amanda Vanstone (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

There were, for example, over 400,000 Australian apprentices in training in the March quarter in 2006, so I thought it might be interesting to look at the number in training in the year that Mr Beazley was the minister. It was only 122,000, compared to 403,000. It is a 361 per cent increase since the coalition was elected. Apprenticeship completions are up 361 per cent. There is a record 1.64 million publicly funded students undertaking vocational and technical education—