Lee Rhiannon (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Given that thousands of students, parents, teachers, staff and friends of TAFE are rallying today in Victoria to support TAFE in the face of the Baillieu government's devastating $300 million cuts, do you acknowledge that it has been a key policy failure of the federal government to place conditions on the $1.4 billion you inject into the vocational education and training system each year? And what are your plans to stop state governments from making further funding cuts to the TAFE system, which is leading to campus closures, job losses, courses cut and increased student fees?