Happy National TAFE Day! And thank you—awana—to my friend the member for Lingiari, who took me last week to her beautiful country on the Tiwi Islands where we announced $6.9 million in mobile TAFE projects, because, on this side of the House, we are ensuring that Australians in every corner of the country have access to the skills and the training they need to get good, secure jobs.

We recognise National TAFE Day today to say thank you. Thank you to everyone who makes our TAFEs the national success that they are, like the teachers, the apprentices and the learners in the gallery today here. I pay tribute, too, to my colleagues who joined with me this morning to share their experiences as students and as teachers, because, on this side of the House, we stand on the shoulders of TAFE. Labor is the party of TAFE, and we, under this Prime Minister, have put TAFE back at the very centre of our educational system after a decade of neglect from those opposite, when the Liberals and the Nationals tore billions of dollars out of TAFE and training.

Thanks to free TAFE, Australians are voting with their feet. So, on National TAFE Day, I'm pleased to announce that, in its first 3½ years, we have now had more than 850,000 enrolments and—