Thanks, Senator Stewart, for your question. She is absolutely right: free TAFE is changing lives right across the country, not just in Victoria. Senator Stewart's home state, but in every single state across the country and territories as well. We've seen more than 850,000 new enrolments, and those numbers are rising every single day. As a result of the Albanese Labor government's free TAFE program, we've also seen 275,000 course completions, and that number is also growing day by day.

I know that Senator Stewart's questions refer to Victoria, which was the birthplace of free TAFE. That would have been under a state Labor government, I'm presuming, probably not a state coalition government. Jeff Kennett was more into closing TAFEs, as I recall, rather than providing free TAFE.