Stephen Jones (Throsby, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate a Throsby constituent from Port Kembla, Mr Guy Brooks, who has recently been selected to represent the Team Australia Skillaroos at the International WorldSkills competition in London in 2011. The Skillaroos are 30 of Australia’s elite, young skilled workforce champions who will train for the next 10 months to be competition ready.

WorldSkills is the world’s largest international skills competition where young people from across the globe compete to become the ‘best of the best’ in their chosen skill. Australia’s Skillaroos will be represented in 27 different skill categories, with Guy Brooks competing in the category of welding. Australia has competed at every competition since 1988 and is currently ranked fifth in the world. The Gillard Labor government is investing $1.3 million a year to 2010-11 in WorldSkills Australia, and it is great to see young Australians like Guy Brooks leading the way by being part of the highly skilled future our economy needs.