Labor Leader Anthony Albanese has laid out his party’s plans for skills training and universities during what has been described as an unofficial campaign launch ahead of next year’s election.
Speaking to the party faithful in Sydney, Mr Albanese said a Labor government would deliver 465,000 free TAFE places and boost university funding by almost $500 million to help an extra 20,000 Australians get jobs or upskill.
TAFE would receive an extra $621 million over four years, including $50 million for a capital works fund, under the plan.
“This is good policy for jobs, good policy for people looking to train or retrain, and good policy for businesses, which need more skilled workers,” Mr Albanese said.
“Instead of driving wages down, Labor will train people up.”
His deputy Richard Marles said Australia is facing a skills crisis and to ignore it would be a “huge…
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