Ken Ticehurst (Dobell, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

No, I will not. I am talking about technical education. I have moved off dental; we have done a great job lately on oral health. During the state election we had the Premier of New South Wales announcing that they are going to put technical colleges in Gosford and Wyong. This was a haphazard thing because we have seen no explanation anywhere of what these technical colleges are going to be and how they are going to work. It is just another furphy because when I was going to school we used to have state government run technical colleges around the Sydney suburbs and it was the Labor government that closed these down so that people could walk away from technical education. All of their emphasis was on university degrees. I am very proud to say that I did my electrical engineering training at TAFE, and some of the things that I have done and constructed and designed over my years were things that people—

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