Julian McGauran (Victoria, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

I was making the point that, of all people, Senator Campbell, an old unionist who made his profession and his political career based on defending the workers, the tradies, had come in here and railed against what he knows is a successful program, one that was successful before it was abolished and was an avenue for young people to take up trades. Those young people were the ones who did not want to go to university, who were not suited to university and would get nothing out of university; in fact, they probably never even bothered to go to university. To cut off that lifeline that technical colleges were in the seventies and eighties and to maintain your tirade against it, Senator Campbell, makes you nothing more than a shameless lackey of the Labor Party policy—