Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

Under the workforce training scheme, the NBN will work with delivery partners to recruit and train around 4½ thousand workers. This will see the current project construction workforce double, with around 9,000 workers employed at the peak of the rollout. This will address identified skill shortages. NBN will work with partners to ensure that trained workers have jobs after their training and stay working on the project and in the telecoms industry as the project proceeds. Importantly, the scheme will target both school leavers and people who have worked in the industry who require retraining.

Senator Conroy interjecting—