Mark Arbib (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Government Service Delivery) Share this | Hansard source

In relation to Apprentice Kickstart, as I was saying, I have correspondence from Skill360 and they are actually going to run a marketing campaign to recruit apprentices for local industry and local business on the back of Apprentice Kickstart. This is the government working cooperatively with Cairns employers and training organisations to fight rising unemployment, unlike what the coalition is doing.

I just want to go through a couple of the projects that Senator Macdonald would like to see knocked off and not started in Cairns: Building the Education Revolution, 304 projects in Leichhardt; and Primary Schools for the 21st Century, 103 projects. These would be gone under Senator Macdonald. Seven science and language centres—