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EV not Petrol<p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/dutton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dutton</span></a> promises 12 new <a href="https://aus.social/tags/technical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technical</span></a> colleges attached to existing high schools and the conservative <a href="https://aus.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> and <a href="https://aus.social/tags/abc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abc</span></a> put it up like it something shiny and new. We have them, they were destroyed by <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Howard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Howard</span></a> and <a href="https://aus.social/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>labor</span></a> bought them back….they are called <a href="https://aus.social/tags/tafe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tafe</span></a>. </p><p>Look them up, all the states have been building them because the morons who voted for <a href="https://aus.social/tags/howard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>howard</span></a> destroyed our apprentice system and outsourced it all to unregulated private firms who provided unqualified people.</p>
☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻<p>Day 17 👷‍♂️ 👷‍♀️🧰 🛠️🪚🗜️ 🏭</p><p>“The free <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/TAFE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TAFE</span></a> policy – I am sorry, it’s just not working. I am trying to be polite. But the free TAFE <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/policy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policy</span></a> has cost this country $1.5bn.” — <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/SarahHenderson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SarahHenderson</span></a></p><p>Todays <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/LNP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LNP</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Liberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liberal</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Coalition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coalition</span></a> policy on <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Business</span></a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Manufacturing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Manufacturing</span></a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Housing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Housing</span></a> and message to all those who are technically competent in building, fixing and … getting💩 done. </p><p>Also a reminder the Liberals, LNP and Nationals have no Policies. </p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/PeterDutton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeterDutton</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/CandidateProblem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CandidateProblem</span></a> &lt;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/apr/15/australia-election-2025-live-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-coalition-labor-poll-housing-interest-rates-rba-taylor-chalmers-ntwnfb?page=with%3Ablock-67fdf1408f0819448f7d8b87#block-67fdf1408f0819448f7d8b87" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/australia-news</span><span class="invisible">/live/2025/apr/15/australia-election-2025-live-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-coalition-labor-poll-housing-interest-rates-rba-taylor-chalmers-ntwnfb?page=with%3Ablock-67fdf1408f0819448f7d8b87#block-67fdf1408f0819448f7d8b87</span></a>&gt;</p>
☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻<p>Day nine cont</p><p>“Claire ONEIL: 1.2 million homes in five years</p><p>The Minister is focused on building more and wants 1.2 million new homes in five years.</p><p>“We need to build more <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/homes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>homes</span></a> at the affordable end of the market – that’s why we want 1.2 million homes built over <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/FiveYears" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FiveYears</span></a> and assist <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/FirstHomeBuyers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstHomeBuyers</span></a>.</p><p>Construction capability is very important – we’ve got to build more homes; we need to build our construction sector’s capacity, and one of the most important aspects of that is that we’re training more <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/tradies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tradies</span></a>.</p><p>Fee-free <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/TAFE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TAFE</span></a> is now permanent. Tens of thousands of those have been people <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/training" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>training</span></a> in <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/construction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>construction</span></a>.”</p><p>There is no mention that I can find on housing from <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labor</span></a>. The Government Minister for Housing made the above comment on 14th March in the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Melbourne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Melbourne</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/NeosKosmos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeosKosmos</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labor</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/CaireONeil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CaireONeil</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/HousingCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HousingCrisis</span></a> &lt;<a href="https://neoskosmos.com/en/2025/03/14/news/australia/build-build-build-clare-oneils-bold-plan-to-tackle-australias-housing-crisis/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">neoskosmos.com/en/2025/03/14/n</span><span class="invisible">ews/australia/build-build-build-clare-oneils-bold-plan-to-tackle-australias-housing-crisis/</span></a>&gt;</p>
skua<p>Hearing of troubles in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WesternAustralia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WesternAustralia</span></a>'s trades <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Appenticeship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Appenticeship</span></a> scheme.</p><p>Seems <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TAFE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TAFE</span></a> has failed to deliver the required technical training content for a 3 year apprenticeship within the 3 year timeframe.</p><p>And has not notified the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ApprenticeshipBoard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ApprenticeshipBoard</span></a> of this failing.</p><p>Only notified the apprentices after the board had told the apprentices that they'd completed theur apprenticeships.</p><p>And tried BS "failed to attend".</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Maladministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Maladministration</span></a>?</p><p>3 years of low pay for the apprentices.<br>Another?</p>
David Wakeham<p>RE: Albo’s proposed YouTube ban.</p><p>I've studied &amp; taught students from foundation to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tafe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tafe</span></a> to post-graduate. In diverse places, from homeschooling to Go8 universities. Not a single one has not involved at least one YouTube video. </p><p>Could it possibly be just another distraction to take focus off their irresponsible refusal to act on the results and recommendations of yet another senate inquiry? </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>auspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NoAgeBan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoAgeBan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EduSky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EduSky</span></a>🍎 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UDL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UDL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InclusiveEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InclusiveEducation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Accessibility</span></a></p>
John Wilson WSWS<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Victorian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Victorian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/TAFE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TAFE</span></a> teachers hold fourth <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Strike</span></a> for pay increase and lower workload</p><p>Technical and Further Education (TAFE) teachers from 12 standalone TAFE colleges in Victoria held their fourth 24-hour strike since June on Thu and rallied outside their colleges or in front of the offices of state Labor members of parliament. The Australian Education Union (AEU) has allowed negotiations with the state Labor government to drag on for more than two years.</p><p><a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/10/19/tkrz-o19.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wsws.org/en/articles/2024/10/1</span><span class="invisible">9/tkrz-o19.html</span></a></p>