My question is to the Minister for Skills and Training. How will the Albanese Labor government's free trade agreement with the European Union ensure Australia continues to build its reputation in tertiary education?

Thanks to my friend the member for Macquarie for her question and her fierce advocacy on behalf of her community, especially and including when it comes to trade and the benefits it can bring. I also thank the member for her support in locking in the next free TAFE agreement with New South Wales, signed last week, securing ongoing access to high-quality training for people in that great state.

The Australia-EU Free Trade Agreement builds on the critical work we've been doing to build our future and to ensure, importantly, that more Australians can benefit from this. Of course, this is the most comprehensive and the most progressive trade agreement ever concluded in Australia—a once-in-a-generation landmark deal that really opens up a huge market, something that will provide economy-wide benefits to Australia, to business, to communities and critically to Australian workers. Agriculture, another area where the member for Macquarie has been a real champion, is an example of a sector where we continue to punch above our weight as the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry has just outlined to the House and where we have so much to share with the world—including the skills that we are building here thanks to the Albanese Labor government's investment in skills and training.

I think about being at Richmond TAFE with the member, where we met students and teachers who will benefit from this deal and the gateway to the European market it opens up—people like Bridget studying a cert III in agriculture who'd already locked in graduate work and those fantastic teachers like Kate teaching the critical skills needed to grow that pipeline of workers that is needed, sharing world-class skills we have in our tertiary education system with the world and benefiting at the same time from the experience and the expertise of members right across the European Union.

It's really important to emphasise that the winners of this agreement aren't just our producers and exporters; they are apprentices, trainees, students and workers because this agreement supports good jobs for Australians, especially regional Australians. This trading relationship already supports over 340,000 jobs right across the country. Under this new agreement, we'll see more young Australians get that opportunity for secure, skilled jobs created by the deal. The Albanese Labor government's approach to skills and training through free TAFE, the National Skills Agreement, tertiary harmonisation and apprenticeship reforms positioned us to see the benefits flow to learners and to workers right around the country.

We are rightly internationally renowned for our tertiary education system, and this opens up real opportunities from the free trade agreement for those institutions and for Australian individuals too. We cannot let this pass us by—for Bridget, for Kate and for Australians right around our nation. Our free TAFE reforms have backed their skills, and this EU free trade agreement opens up even more opportunities for all of their futures.