Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research) Share this | Hansard source

I am sure the senator would be aware that Minister Julia Gillard has already announced, on 12 December 2008, that the Australian Technical College Northern Tasmania would become a Catholic systemic senior secondary college owned and operated by the Catholic Archdiocese of Hobart. The ATC campuses at Launceston and Burnie would be integrated with St Patrick’s College in Launceston and Marist Regional College in Burnie. On 21 August 2009, Catholic Education Tasmania wrote to DEEWR, the education department, and advised that it did not intend to proceed with that arrangement and that they were unable to sustain the financial impost in the long term. The future options in regard to the operations of the Australian Technical College Northern Tasmania—(Time expired)