Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Sterle for the supplementary. Making more things here in Australia will mean creating more secure and well-paid jobs in our suburbs and regions—something that you've spent your working life on, Senator Sterle. We've committed investments over five years to support world-class skills training and tertiary education, including financial support for apprentices, including accelerating the development of the clean energy workforce and making sure that women get an opportunity in that, including supporting the growth of the construction workforce and including our payments for the practical time that nurses, teachers, midwives and social work students spend doing prac placements.

These are all about investments in the workforce of the future that underpin and form part of the Future Made in Australia. Through that plan, the Albanese government is investing a further $1.3 billion in our people and the places at the centre of this economic transformation. We want to support the transition of workers whose skills we will need in the new industries.