❓ The Minister for Education and Training outlines a new program supporting students in building and construction VET, criticising the previous government's record on apprenticeships and traineeships while highlighting the current government's achievements.
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Will the minister advise the House of any new program aimed at attracting more young people into careers in the building and construction industry? Mr A.J. CARPENTER
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I thank the member for Peel for the question. Yesterday I launched a new support program initiated by the board of the Building and Construction Industry Training Fund. The board has provided funding to the west coast vocational education and training reference group to support 15 students undertaking the building and construction industry vocational education and training in schools program. The west coast VET reference group comprises 17 secondary schools and colleges in the north western suburbs and has established a partnership with Swan TAFE and other TAFE colleges and several industry organisations, including the Housing Industry Association. This is the first such initiative that will take advantage of the BCITF school-to-work transition and, hopefully, will be followed by many others. We are making very important inroads into providing career opportunities in the building and construction industry and in enlivening people to the prospects in that industry. The BCITF board and industry stakeholders are concerned about the ageing of the work force and the fact that not enough people have been attracted into the building and construction industry. If one listens to what many people are saying, that is primarily because of the indolence of the former Government and its inability to promote apprenticeships and traineeships, as evidenced by its shocking record compared with our record and the record of the rest of the country. The board and a subcommittee comprising industry stakeholders, including Mr Dale Alcock, Mike McLean of the Master Builders Association, John Dastlik of the Housing Industry Association and Mike Morris of the Construction Contractors Association of WA, are currently overseeing the development of promotional materials and a school visitation program. The statistics speak for themselves. The figures that I am showing to members demonstrate what Governments can do when they get off their backsides and get to work with some policies aimed at giving people opportunities. The blue line on the graph indicates what happens when Governments are lazy, useless, lack leadership and direction and have no ideas, which was the situation under the previous Government and which is the situation that continues with this pathetic, moribund Opposition that is poorly led. I am showing the House the stark evidence. These are the figures that the Opposition does not like to see. Point of Order Mr M.J. BIRNEY: The minister has been flashing that graph around for two days now. I ask that he table it, because it looks suspiciously like the state debt graph. The SPEAKER: The provisions in relation to the tabling of documents to which the minister referred are for official documents. I do not know whether that graph is or is not an official document. However, the minister can advise whether that is an official document. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I am more than happy to provide every member of the Chamber with a copy of these statistics. In fact, I am thinking about having this graph printed on a T-shirt so that I can wear it around Australia and demonstrate to everybody in Western Australia just how lazy, indolent, moribund and useless the previous Government was, compared with the red line, which demonstrates the success of good policy. It must not be forgotten that it took us 12 months to turn around the situation and for the red line to go into the positive area. In the past two years - not even three years - we have had 40 per cent growth in apprenticeships and traineeships in Western Australia. What have the figures been nationally? Yesterday the member for Darling Range asserted that the same figure has applied nationally in the past two years since our policies went into gear. Growth nationally has been 22 per cent. Our record is 50 per cent better than the national record. I have one more important statistic to provide before I sit. What happened under the lot opposite? Did it have training ministers, or did it just let the market prevail? In the last three years of the previous Government, when apprenticeships and traineeships were booming in Australia and growth around Australia was more than 50 per cent, what was the figure in Western Australia? There was a decline of half a per cent in the number of people who were taking up apprenticeships and traineeships, while the rest of Australia was taking off. That is because those opposite were useless. They still are useless. They have no ideas and no leadership. They have Malcolm Nash, without any ideas - cannot bowl, cannot bat. They have no ideas, and they have no prospect of being re-elected. They are latching on to little issues. What did they do when they were in government? Absolutely nothing. If we really want to press the point, I will start going back over some of the performances of the previous ministers in the area of child abuse and see what I turn up. I will start going back over the records of the previous ministers, some of whom are still in this Chamber and some of whom are outside this Chamber, and see what turns up. Then we will see how brave opposition members are about standing in this Parliament and why they run over to the member for Albany to ask him questions. We will find out what they did with the information that they had in this Chamber. The people on that side had eight years to do something in this area. What did they do? Nothing.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for Peel for the question. Yesterday I launched a new support program initiated by the board of the Building and Construction Industry Training Fund. The board has provided funding to the west coast vocational education and training reference group to support 15 students undertaking the building and construction industry vocational education and training in schools program. The west coast VET reference group comprises 17 secondary schools and colleges in the north western suburbs and has established a partnership with Swan TAFE and other TAFE colleges and several industry organisations, including the Housing Industry Association. This is the first such initiative that will take advantage of the BCITF school-to-work transition and, hopefully, will be followed by many others. We are making very important inroads into providing career opportunities in the building and construction industry and in enlivening people to the prospects in that industry. The BCITF board and industry stakeholders are concerned about the ageing of the work force and the fact that not enough people have been attracted into the building and construction industry. If one listens to what many people are saying, that is primarily because of the indolence of the former Government and its inability to promote apprenticeships and traineeships, as evidenced by its shocking record compared with our record and the record of the rest of the country. The board and a subcommittee comprising industry stakeholders, including Mr Dale Alcock, Mike McLean of the Master Builders Association, John Dastlik of the Housing Industry Association and Mike Morris of the Construction Contractors Association of WA, are currently overseeing the development of promotional materials and a school visitation program. The statistics speak for themselves. The figures that I am showing to members demonstrate what Governments can do when they get off their backsides and get to work with some policies aimed at giving people opportunities. The blue line on the graph indicates what happens when Governments are lazy, useless, lack leadership and direction and have no ideas, which was the situation under the previous Government and which is the situation that continues with this pathetic, moribund Opposition that is poorly led. I am showing the House the stark evidence. These are the figures that the Opposition does not like to see. Point of Order Mr M.J. BIRNEY: The minister has been flashing that graph around for two days now. I ask that he table it, because it looks suspiciously like the state debt graph. The SPEAKER: The provisions in relation to the tabling of documents to which the minister referred are for official documents. I do not know whether that graph is or is not an official document. However, the minister can advise whether that is an official document. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I am more than happy to provide every member of the Chamber with a copy of these statistics. In fact, I am thinking about having this graph printed on a T-shirt so that I can wear it around Australia and demonstrate to everybody in Western Australia just how lazy, indolent, moribund and useless the previous Government was, compared with the red line, which demonstrates the success of good policy. It must not be forgotten that it took us 12 months to turn around the situation and for the red line to go into the positive area. In the past two years - not even three years - we have had 40 per cent growth in apprenticeships and traineeships in Western Australia. What have the figures been nationally? Yesterday the member for Darling Range asserted that the same figure has applied nationally in the past two years since our policies went into gear. Growth nationally has been 22 per cent. Our record is 50 per cent better than the national record. I have one more important statistic to provide before I sit. What happened under the lot opposite? Did it have training ministers, or did it just let the market prevail? In the last three years of the previous Government, when apprenticeships and traineeships were booming in Australia and growth around Australia was more than 50 per cent, what was the figure in Western Australia? There was a decline of half a per cent in the number of people who were taking up apprenticeships and traineeships, while the rest of Australia was taking off. That is because those opposite were useless. They still are useless. They have no ideas and no leadership. They have Malcolm Nash, without any ideas - cannot bowl, cannot bat. They have no ideas, and they have no prospect of being re-elected. They are latching on to little issues. What did they do when they were in government? Absolutely nothing. If we really want to press the point, I will start going back over some of the performances of the previous ministers in the area of child abuse and see what I turn up. I will start going back over the records of the previous ministers, some of whom are still in this Chamber and some of whom are outside this Chamber, and see what turns up. Then we will see how brave opposition members are about standing in this Parliament and why they run over to the member for Albany to ask him questions. We will find out what they did with the information that they had in this Chamber. The people on that side had eight years to do something in this area. What did they do? Nothing.
I thank the member for Peel for the question. Yesterday I launched a new support program initiated by the board of the Building and Construction Industry Training Fund. The board has provided funding to the west coast vocational education and training reference group to support 15 students undertaking the building and construction industry vocational education and training in schools program. The west coast VET reference group comprises 17 secondary schools and colleges in the north western suburbs and has established a partnership with Swan TAFE and other TAFE colleges and several industry organisations, including the Housing Industry Association. This is the first such initiative that will take advantage of the BCITF school-to-work transition and, hopefully, will be followed by many others. We are making very important inroads into providing career opportunities in the building and construction industry and in enlivening people to the prospects in that industry. The BCITF board and industry stakeholders are concerned about the ageing of the work force and the fact that not enough people have been attracted into the building and construction industry. If one listens to what many people are saying, that is primarily because of the indolence of the former Government and its inability to promote apprenticeships and traineeships, as evidenced by its shocking record compared with our record and the record of the rest of the country. The board and a subcommittee comprising industry stakeholders, including Mr Dale Alcock, Mike McLean of the Master Builders Association, John Dastlik of the Housing Industry Association and Mike Morris of the Construction Contractors Association of WA, are currently overseeing the development of promotional materials and a school visitation program. The statistics speak for themselves. The figures that I am showing to members demonstrate what Governments can do when they get off their backsides and get to work with some policies aimed at giving people opportunities. The blue line on the graph indicates what happens when Governments are lazy, useless, lack leadership and direction and have no ideas, which was the situation under the previous Government and which is the situation that continues with this pathetic, moribund Opposition that is poorly led. I am showing the House the stark evidence. These are the figures that the Opposition does not like to see. Point of Order Mr M.J. BIRNEY: The minister has been flashing that graph around for two days now. I ask that he table it, because it looks suspiciously like the state debt graph. The SPEAKER: The provisions in relation to the tabling of documents to which the minister referred are for official documents. I do not know whether that graph is or is not an official document. However, the minister can advise whether that is an official document. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I am more than happy to provide every member of the Chamber with a copy of these statistics. In fact, I am thinking about having this graph printed on a T-shirt so that I can wear it around Australia and demonstrate to everybody in Western Australia just how lazy, indolent, moribund and useless the previous Government was, compared with the red line, which demonstrates the success of good policy. It must not be forgotten that it took us 12 months to turn around the situation and for the red line to go into the positive area. In the past two years - not even three years - we have had 40 per cent growth in apprenticeships and traineeships in Western Australia. What have the figures been nationally? Yesterday the member for Darling Range asserted that the same figure has applied nationally in the past two years since our policies went into gear. Growth nationally has been 22 per cent. Our record is 50 per cent better than the national record. I have one more important statistic to provide before I sit. What happened under the lot opposite? Did it have training ministers, or did it just let the market prevail? In the last three years of the previous Government, when apprenticeships and traineeships were booming in Australia and growth around Australia was more than 50 per cent, what was the figure in Western Australia? There was a decline of half a per cent in the number of people who were taking up apprenticeships and traineeships, while the rest of Australia was taking off. That is because those opposite were useless. They still are useless. They have no ideas and no leadership. They have Malcolm Nash, without any ideas - cannot bowl, cannot bat. They have no ideas, and they have no prospect of being re-elected. They are latching on to little issues. What did they do when they were in government? Absolutely nothing. If we really want to press the point, I will start going back over some of the performances of the previous ministers in the area of child abuse and see what I turn up. I will start going back over the records of the previous ministers, some of whom are still in this Chamber and some of whom are outside this Chamber, and see what turns up. Then we will see how brave opposition members are about standing in this Parliament and why they run over to the member for Albany to ask him questions. We will find out what they did with the information that they had in this Chamber. The people on that side had eight years to do something in this area. What did they do? Nothing.
We are making very important inroads into providing career opportunities in the building and construction industry and in enlivening people to the prospects in that industry. The BCITF board and industry stakeholders are concerned about the ageing of the work force and the fact that not enough people have been attracted into the building and construction industry. If one listens to what many people are saying, that is primarily because of the indolence of the former Government and its inability to promote apprenticeships and traineeships, as evidenced by its shocking record compared with our record and the record of the rest of the country. The board and a subcommittee comprising industry stakeholders, including Mr Dale Alcock, Mike McLean of the Master Builders Association, John Dastlik of the Housing Industry Association and Mike Morris of the Construction Contractors Association of WA, are currently overseeing the development of promotional materials and a school visitation program. The statistics speak for themselves. The figures that I am showing to members demonstrate what Governments can do when they get off their backsides and get to work with some policies aimed at giving people opportunities. The blue line on the graph indicates what happens when Governments are lazy, useless, lack leadership and direction and have no ideas, which was the situation under the previous Government and which is the situation that continues with this pathetic, moribund Opposition that is poorly led. I am showing the House the stark evidence. These are the figures that the Opposition does not like to see. Point of Order Mr M.J. BIRNEY: The minister has been flashing that graph around for two days now. I ask that he table it, because it looks suspiciously like the state debt graph. The SPEAKER: The provisions in relation to the tabling of documents to which the minister referred are for official documents. I do not know whether that graph is or is not an official document. However, the minister can advise whether that is an official document. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I am more than happy to provide every member of the Chamber with a copy of these statistics. In fact, I am thinking about having this graph printed on a T-shirt so that I can wear it around Australia and demonstrate to everybody in Western Australia just how lazy, indolent, moribund and useless the previous Government was, compared with the red line, which demonstrates the success of good policy. It must not be forgotten that it took us 12 months to turn around the situation and for the red line to go into the positive area. In the past two years - not even three years - we have had 40 per cent growth in apprenticeships and traineeships in Western Australia. What have the figures been nationally? Yesterday the member for Darling Range asserted that the same figure has applied nationally in the past two years since our policies went into gear. Growth nationally has been 22 per cent. Our record is 50 per cent better than the national record. I have one more important statistic to provide before I sit. What happened under the lot opposite? Did it have training ministers, or did it just let the market prevail? In the last three years of the previous Government, when apprenticeships and traineeships were booming in Australia and growth around Australia was more than 50 per cent, what was the figure in Western Australia? There was a decline of half a per cent in the number of people who were taking up apprenticeships and traineeships, while the rest of Australia was taking off. That is because those opposite were useless. They still are useless. They have no ideas and no leadership. They have Malcolm Nash, without any ideas - cannot bowl, cannot bat. They have no ideas, and they have no prospect of being re-elected. They are latching on to little issues. What did they do when they were in government? Absolutely nothing. If we really want to press the point, I will start going back over some of the performances of the previous ministers in the area of child abuse and see what I turn up. I will start going back over the records of the previous ministers, some of whom are still in this Chamber and some of whom are outside this Chamber, and see what turns up. Then we will see how brave opposition members are about standing in this Parliament and why they run over to the member for Albany to ask him questions. We will find out what they did with the information that they had in this Chamber. The people on that side had eight years to do something in this area. What did they do? Nothing.
The SPEAKER: The provisions in relation to the tabling of documents to which the minister referred are for official documents. I do not know whether that graph is or is not an official document. However, the minister can advise whether that is an official document. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I am more than happy to provide every member of the Chamber with a copy of these statistics. In fact, I am thinking about having this graph printed on a T-shirt so that I can wear it around Australia and demonstrate to everybody in Western Australia just how lazy, indolent, moribund and useless the previous Government was, compared with the red line, which demonstrates the success of good policy. It must not be forgotten that it took us 12 months to turn around the situation and for the red line to go into the positive area. In the past two years - not even three years - we have had 40 per cent growth in apprenticeships and traineeships in Western Australia. What have the figures been nationally? Yesterday the member for Darling Range asserted that the same figure has applied nationally in the past two years since our policies went into gear. Growth nationally has been 22 per cent. Our record is 50 per cent better than the national record. I have one more important statistic to provide before I sit. What happened under the lot opposite? Did it have training ministers, or did it just let the market prevail? In the last three years of the previous Government, when apprenticeships and traineeships were booming in Australia and growth around Australia was more than 50 per cent, what was the figure in Western Australia? There was a decline of half a per cent in the number of people who were taking up apprenticeships and traineeships, while the rest of Australia was taking off. That is because those opposite were useless. They still are useless. They have no ideas and no leadership. They have Malcolm Nash, without any ideas - cannot bowl, cannot bat. They have no ideas, and they have no prospect of being re-elected. They are latching on to little issues. What did they do when they were in government? Absolutely nothing. If we really want to press the point, I will start going back over some of the performances of the previous ministers in the area of child abuse and see what I turn up. I will start going back over the records of the previous ministers, some of whom are still in this Chamber and some of whom are outside this Chamber, and see what turns up. Then we will see how brave opposition members are about standing in this Parliament and why they run over to the member for Albany to ask him questions. We will find out what they did with the information that they had in this Chamber. The people on that side had eight years to do something in this area. What did they do? Nothing.
I have one more important statistic to provide before I sit. What happened under the lot opposite? Did it have training ministers, or did it just let the market prevail? In the last three years of the previous Government, when apprenticeships and traineeships were booming in Australia and growth around Australia was more than 50 per cent, what was the figure in Western Australia? There was a decline of half a per cent in the number of people who were taking up apprenticeships and traineeships, while the rest of Australia was taking off. That is because those opposite were useless. They still are useless. They have no ideas and no leadership. They have Malcolm Nash, without any ideas - cannot bowl, cannot bat. They have no ideas, and they have no prospect of being re-elected. They are latching on to little issues. What did they do when they were in government? Absolutely nothing. If we really want to press the point, I will start going back over some of the performances of the previous ministers in the area of child abuse and see what I turn up. I will start going back over the records of the previous ministers, some of whom are still in this Chamber and some of whom are outside this Chamber, and see what turns up. Then we will see how brave opposition members are about standing in this Parliament and why they run over to the member for Albany to ask him questions. We will find out what they did with the information that they had in this Chamber. The people on that side had eight years to do something in this area. What did they do? Nothing.
If we really want to press the point, I will start going back over some of the performances of the previous ministers in the area of child abuse and see what I turn up. I will start going back over the records of the previous ministers, some of whom are still in this Chamber and some of whom are outside this Chamber, and see what turns up. Then we will see how brave opposition members are about standing in this Parliament and why they run over to the member for Albany to ask him questions. We will find out what they did with the information that they had in this Chamber. The people on that side had eight years to do something in this area. What did they do? Nothing.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for Peel for the question. Yesterday I launched a new support program initiated by the board of the Building and Construction Industry Training Fund. The board has provided funding to the west coast vocational education and training reference group to support 15 students undertaking the building and construction industry vocational education and training in schools program. The west coast VET reference group comprises 17 secondary schools and colleges in the north western suburbs and has established a partnership with Swan TAFE and other TAFE colleges and several industry organisations, including the Housing Industry Association. This is the first such initiative that will take advantage of the BCITF school-to-work transition and, hopefully, will be followed by many others. We are making very important inroads into providing career opportunities in the building and construction industry and in enlivening people to the prospects in that industry. The BCITF board and industry stakeholders are concerned about the ageing of the work force and the fact that not enough people have been attracted into the building and construction industry. If one listens to what many people are saying, that is primarily because of the indolence of the former Government and its inability to promote apprenticeships and traineeships, as evidenced by its shocking record compared with our record and the record of the rest of the country. The board and a subcommittee comprising industry stakeholders, including Mr Dale Alcock, Mike McLean of the Master Builders Association, John Dastlik of the Housing Industry Association and Mike Morris of the Construction Contractors Association of WA, are currently overseeing the development of promotional materials and a school visitation program. The statistics speak for themselves. The figures that I am showing to members demonstrate what Governments can do when they get off their backsides and get to work with some policies aimed at giving people opportunities. The blue line on the graph indicates what happens when Governments are lazy, useless, lack leadership and direction and have no ideas, which was the situation under the previous Government and which is the situation that continues with this pathetic, moribund Opposition that is poorly led. I am showing the House the stark evidence. These are the figures that the Opposition does not like to see. Point of Order Mr M.J. BIRNEY: The minister has been flashing that graph around for two days now. I ask that he table it, because it looks suspiciously like the state debt graph. The SPEAKER: The provisions in relation to the tabling of documents to which the minister referred are for official documents. I do not know whether that graph is or is not an official document. However, the minister can advise whether that is an official document. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I am more than happy to provide every member of the Chamber with a copy of these statistics. In fact, I am thinking about having this graph printed on a T-shirt so that I can wear it around Australia and demonstrate to everybody in Western Australia just how lazy, indolent, moribund and useless the previous Government was, compared with the red line, which demonstrates the success of good policy. It must not be forgotten that it took us 12 months to turn around the situation and for the red line to go into the positive area. In the past two years - not even three years - we have had 40 per cent growth in apprenticeships and traineeships in Western Australia. What have the figures been nationally? Yesterday the member for Darling Range asserted that the same figure has applied nationally in the past two years since our policies went into gear. Growth nationally has been 22 per cent. Our record is 50 per cent better than the national record. I have one more important statistic to provide before I sit. What happened under the lot opposite? Did it have training ministers, or did it just let the market prevail? In the last three years of the previous Government, when apprenticeships and traineeships were booming in Australia and growth around Australia was more than 50 per cent, what was the figure in Western Australia? There was a decline of half a per cent in the number of people who were taking up apprenticeships and traineeships, while the rest of Australia was taking off. That is because those opposite were useless. They still are useless. They have no ideas and no leadership. They have Malcolm Nash, without any ideas - cannot bowl, cannot bat. They have no ideas, and they have no prospect of being re-elected. They are latching on to little issues. What did they do when they were in government? Absolutely nothing. If we really want to press the point, I will start going back over some of the performances of the previous ministers in the area of child abuse and see what I turn up. I will start going back over the records of the previous ministers, some of whom are still in this Chamber and some of whom are outside this Chamber, and see what turns up. Then we will see how brave opposition members are about standing in this Parliament and why they run over to the member for Albany to ask him questions. We will find out what they did with the information that they had in this Chamber. The people on that side had eight years to do something in this area. What did they do? Nothing.
I thank the member for Peel for the question. Yesterday I launched a new support program initiated by the board of the Building and Construction Industry Training Fund. The board has provided funding to the west coast vocational education and training reference group to support 15 students undertaking the building and construction industry vocational education and training in schools program. The west coast VET reference group comprises 17 secondary schools and colleges in the north western suburbs and has established a partnership with Swan TAFE and other TAFE colleges and several industry organisations, including the Housing Industry Association. This is the first such initiative that will take advantage of the BCITF school-to-work transition and, hopefully, will be followed by many others. We are making very important inroads into providing career opportunities in the building and construction industry and in enlivening people to the prospects in that industry. The BCITF board and industry stakeholders are concerned about the ageing of the work force and the fact that not enough people have been attracted into the building and construction industry. If one listens to what many people are saying, that is primarily because of the indolence of the former Government and its inability to promote apprenticeships and traineeships, as evidenced by its shocking record compared with our record and the record of the rest of the country. The board and a subcommittee comprising industry stakeholders, including Mr Dale Alcock, Mike McLean of the Master Builders Association, John Dastlik of the Housing Industry Association and Mike Morris of the Construction Contractors Association of WA, are currently overseeing the development of promotional materials and a school visitation program. The statistics speak for themselves. The figures that I am showing to members demonstrate what Governments can do when they get off their backsides and get to work with some policies aimed at giving people opportunities. The blue line on the graph indicates what happens when Governments are lazy, useless, lack leadership and direction and have no ideas, which was the situation under the previous Government and which is the situation that continues with this pathetic, moribund Opposition that is poorly led. I am showing the House the stark evidence. These are the figures that the Opposition does not like to see. Point of Order Mr M.J. BIRNEY: The minister has been flashing that graph around for two days now. I ask that he table it, because it looks suspiciously like the state debt graph. The SPEAKER: The provisions in relation to the tabling of documents to which the minister referred are for official documents. I do not know whether that graph is or is not an official document. However, the minister can advise whether that is an official document. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I am more than happy to provide every member of the Chamber with a copy of these statistics. In fact, I am thinking about having this graph printed on a T-shirt so that I can wear it around Australia and demonstrate to everybody in Western Australia just how lazy, indolent, moribund and useless the previous Government was, compared with the red line, which demonstrates the success of good policy. It must not be forgotten that it took us 12 months to turn around the situation and for the red line to go into the positive area. In the past two years - not even three years - we have had 40 per cent growth in apprenticeships and traineeships in Western Australia. What have the figures been nationally? Yesterday the member for Darling Range asserted that the same figure has applied nationally in the past two years since our policies went into gear. Growth nationally has been 22 per cent. Our record is 50 per cent better than the national record. I have one more important statistic to provide before I sit. What happened under the lot opposite? Did it have training ministers, or did it just let the market prevail? In the last three years of the previous Government, when apprenticeships and traineeships were booming in Australia and growth around Australia was more than 50 per cent, what was the figure in Western Australia? There was a decline of half a per cent in the number of people who were taking up apprenticeships and traineeships, while the rest of Australia was taking off. That is because those opposite were useless. They still are useless. They have no ideas and no leadership. They have Malcolm Nash, without any ideas - cannot bowl, cannot bat. They have no ideas, and they have no prospect of being re-elected. They are latching on to little issues. What did they do when they were in government? Absolutely nothing. If we really want to press the point, I will start going back over some of the performances of the previous ministers in the area of child abuse and see what I turn up. I will start going back over the records of the previous ministers, some of whom are still in this Chamber and some of whom are outside this Chamber, and see what turns up. Then we will see how brave opposition members are about standing in this Parliament and why they run over to the member for Albany to ask him questions. We will find out what they did with the information that they had in this Chamber. The people on that side had eight years to do something in this area. What did they do? Nothing.
We are making very important inroads into providing career opportunities in the building and construction industry and in enlivening people to the prospects in that industry. The BCITF board and industry stakeholders are concerned about the ageing of the work force and the fact that not enough people have been attracted into the building and construction industry. If one listens to what many people are saying, that is primarily because of the indolence of the former Government and its inability to promote apprenticeships and traineeships, as evidenced by its shocking record compared with our record and the record of the rest of the country. The board and a subcommittee comprising industry stakeholders, including Mr Dale Alcock, Mike McLean of the Master Builders Association, John Dastlik of the Housing Industry Association and Mike Morris of the Construction Contractors Association of WA, are currently overseeing the development of promotional materials and a school visitation program. The statistics speak for themselves. The figures that I am showing to members demonstrate what Governments can do when they get off their backsides and get to work with some policies aimed at giving people opportunities. The blue line on the graph indicates what happens when Governments are lazy, useless, lack leadership and direction and have no ideas, which was the situation under the previous Government and which is the situation that continues with this pathetic, moribund Opposition that is poorly led. I am showing the House the stark evidence. These are the figures that the Opposition does not like to see. Point of Order Mr M.J. BIRNEY: The minister has been flashing that graph around for two days now. I ask that he table it, because it looks suspiciously like the state debt graph. The SPEAKER: The provisions in relation to the tabling of documents to which the minister referred are for official documents. I do not know whether that graph is or is not an official document. However, the minister can advise whether that is an official document. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I am more than happy to provide every member of the Chamber with a copy of these statistics. In fact, I am thinking about having this graph printed on a T-shirt so that I can wear it around Australia and demonstrate to everybody in Western Australia just how lazy, indolent, moribund and useless the previous Government was, compared with the red line, which demonstrates the success of good policy. It must not be forgotten that it took us 12 months to turn around the situation and for the red line to go into the positive area. In the past two years - not even three years - we have had 40 per cent growth in apprenticeships and traineeships in Western Australia. What have the figures been nationally? Yesterday the member for Darling Range asserted that the same figure has applied nationally in the past two years since our policies went into gear. Growth nationally has been 22 per cent. Our record is 50 per cent better than the national record. I have one more important statistic to provide before I sit. What happened under the lot opposite? Did it have training ministers, or did it just let the market prevail? In the last three years of the previous Government, when apprenticeships and traineeships were booming in Australia and growth around Australia was more than 50 per cent, what was the figure in Western Australia? There was a decline of half a per cent in the number of people who were taking up apprenticeships and traineeships, while the rest of Australia was taking off. That is because those opposite were useless. They still are useless. They have no ideas and no leadership. They have Malcolm Nash, without any ideas - cannot bowl, cannot bat. They have no ideas, and they have no prospect of being re-elected. They are latching on to little issues. What did they do when they were in government? Absolutely nothing. If we really want to press the point, I will start going back over some of the performances of the previous ministers in the area of child abuse and see what I turn up. I will start going back over the records of the previous ministers, some of whom are still in this Chamber and some of whom are outside this Chamber, and see what turns up. Then we will see how brave opposition members are about standing in this Parliament and why they run over to the member for Albany to ask him questions. We will find out what they did with the information that they had in this Chamber. The people on that side had eight years to do something in this area. What did they do? Nothing.
The SPEAKER: The provisions in relation to the tabling of documents to which the minister referred are for official documents. I do not know whether that graph is or is not an official document. However, the minister can advise whether that is an official document. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I am more than happy to provide every member of the Chamber with a copy of these statistics. In fact, I am thinking about having this graph printed on a T-shirt so that I can wear it around Australia and demonstrate to everybody in Western Australia just how lazy, indolent, moribund and useless the previous Government was, compared with the red line, which demonstrates the success of good policy. It must not be forgotten that it took us 12 months to turn around the situation and for the red line to go into the positive area. In the past two years - not even three years - we have had 40 per cent growth in apprenticeships and traineeships in Western Australia. What have the figures been nationally? Yesterday the member for Darling Range asserted that the same figure has applied nationally in the past two years since our policies went into gear. Growth nationally has been 22 per cent. Our record is 50 per cent better than the national record. I have one more important statistic to provide before I sit. What happened under the lot opposite? Did it have training ministers, or did it just let the market prevail? In the last three years of the previous Government, when apprenticeships and traineeships were booming in Australia and growth around Australia was more than 50 per cent, what was the figure in Western Australia? There was a decline of half a per cent in the number of people who were taking up apprenticeships and traineeships, while the rest of Australia was taking off. That is because those opposite were useless. They still are useless. They have no ideas and no leadership. They have Malcolm Nash, without any ideas - cannot bowl, cannot bat. They have no ideas, and they have no prospect of being re-elected. They are latching on to little issues. What did they do when they were in government? Absolutely nothing. If we really want to press the point, I will start going back over some of the performances of the previous ministers in the area of child abuse and see what I turn up. I will start going back over the records of the previous ministers, some of whom are still in this Chamber and some of whom are outside this Chamber, and see what turns up. Then we will see how brave opposition members are about standing in this Parliament and why they run over to the member for Albany to ask him questions. We will find out what they did with the information that they had in this Chamber. The people on that side had eight years to do something in this area. What did they do? Nothing.
I have one more important statistic to provide before I sit. What happened under the lot opposite? Did it have training ministers, or did it just let the market prevail? In the last three years of the previous Government, when apprenticeships and traineeships were booming in Australia and growth around Australia was more than 50 per cent, what was the figure in Western Australia? There was a decline of half a per cent in the number of people who were taking up apprenticeships and traineeships, while the rest of Australia was taking off. That is because those opposite were useless. They still are useless. They have no ideas and no leadership. They have Malcolm Nash, without any ideas - cannot bowl, cannot bat. They have no ideas, and they have no prospect of being re-elected. They are latching on to little issues. What did they do when they were in government? Absolutely nothing. If we really want to press the point, I will start going back over some of the performances of the previous ministers in the area of child abuse and see what I turn up. I will start going back over the records of the previous ministers, some of whom are still in this Chamber and some of whom are outside this Chamber, and see what turns up. Then we will see how brave opposition members are about standing in this Parliament and why they run over to the member for Albany to ask him questions. We will find out what they did with the information that they had in this Chamber. The people on that side had eight years to do something in this area. What did they do? Nothing.
If we really want to press the point, I will start going back over some of the performances of the previous ministers in the area of child abuse and see what I turn up. I will start going back over the records of the previous ministers, some of whom are still in this Chamber and some of whom are outside this Chamber, and see what turns up. Then we will see how brave opposition members are about standing in this Parliament and why they run over to the member for Albany to ask him questions. We will find out what they did with the information that they had in this Chamber. The people on that side had eight years to do something in this area. What did they do? Nothing.
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