Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Health) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. For the minister’s information, there were only two applications. While he is asking the minister, could he ask if it is because the government has done a special deal with the Tasmanian Premier, who is also the Tasmanian Minister for Education, which will see the funding go to the Tasmanian government’s Tasmania Tomorrow reforms, which were rejected by 76 per cent of college teachers in a recent secret ballot. Was the member for Braddon, Mr Sidebottom, misleading his electorate when he said in his pre-election brochure:

Trades training in every local school ... Labor will build new labs and workshops in schools like—

and he goes on to name every school in Braddon, including Marist Regional College and St Brendan-Shaw College, who had their applications rejected.