Helen Polley (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

he would keep the Gonski reforms, reverse Tony Abbott's school cuts and drop his $100,000 degrees—but he has not changed a thing. He is still using that as his priority when it comes to education. Mr Turnbull is pretending to be the innovation Prime Minister when in fact he is vandalising the education system in this country. He has failed to outline to young Australians where the jobs of the future are coming from and the pathway to get there. That is the most important point. We have to build that pathway to innovation. That is the future for our young people.

We cannot have innovation without being digitally ready. The world is changing faster than most of us realise. Our economy, along with the types of jobs Australians have, is rapidly changing. In fact, the jobs that our young people are now training for will not be there in a decade or less. We have to be a lot more nimble, we have to be a lot more agile and we have to be innovative.