Jess Walsh (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Early Childhood Education) Share this | Hansard source

I'm pleased to report that the Albanese government is not only backing the educators of today; we are training the educators of tomorrow too. We've delivered over 50,000 free TAFE places for educators, and free TAFE changes lives. I heard just how powerful that is when I met Shae at TAFE Gippsland. Shae is a mother of five and a grandmother of 11. She was retired until she heard about free TAFE. She told me that she still had more to give and that it's never too late to retrain and start again. So she did start again, enrolling in early childhood education. Shae said she couldn't think of a profession that's more important right now, and I couldn't agree more. Free TAFE is not only changing Shae's life; it's helping to give our children the best start in life too. Free TAFE is building our dedicated educator workforce for the children of today and tomorrow. (Time expired)