Jenny Macklin (Jagajaga, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Treasurer, and I refer to his previous answer, in which he referred to technical colleges. Is the Treasurer aware that only one student is enrolled at the Gladstone technical college, that there are fewer than 100 students enrolled in the other three Australian technical colleges currently open for business and that three promised colleges may not open at all? Treasurer, doesn’t this mean that your colleges will produce fewer than 100 qualified tradespeople by 2010, the year the Australian Industry Group estimates we will need an extra 100,000 tradespeople?

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