Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Paterson for his supplementary question. The Prime Minister, in his address to the National Press Club, identified the need for our skills and training system to further develop and improve. We've embarked on a series of skills organisation pilots that are designed to give industry the opportunity to shape the training system to be more responsive to their future skills needs and to take responsibility for qualification development, which will also benefit young Australians. Three pilots have already been established: in human services, in digital technologies and in mining. They have already begun to show the benefits of this system. On top of this, the government is better linking funding to actual, forward-looking, skills needs, based on what businesses need, simplifying the system and achieving greater consistency between jurisdictions and between VET and universities and increasing funding transparency and performance monitoring.