Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business) Share this | Hansard source

As I was saying, if those on the other side actually care about apprentices, they may wish to ask themselves about how, when we introduced the apprentice wage subsidy, it was actually opposed by those on the other side. If you actually care about getting more people into apprenticeships, you would actually back the government's skills agenda, a commitment in excess of half a billion dollars to ensure that Australians are trained for the jobs of today and for the jobs of tomorrow.