Andrew Wallace (Fisher, Liberal National Party, Shadow Cabinet Secretary) Share this | Hansard source

When you are working on the tools, it's often hard yakka, but there is a life after being on the tools—there is a good life. You can go on and do many other things.

Now, it would be remiss of me if I didn't talk about the housing crisis that this government has created. They wanted to build a million homes. They are 100,000 homes short of building what they need to build every year—a 100,000 deficit of homes. One of the main reasons why is that we have, and continue to have, not enough tradies to be able to build the homes that Australians need. So those members opposite can jump up and down and squawk all they like, but we have a deficit of 100,000 homes each and every year––each and every year. So, young people, I encourage you: do a trade; the world will be your oyster.

See this speech in context