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SenateThursday 25 June 2026

QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator WATT (Queensland—Minister for the Environment and Water) (15:17): Care sector courses as well are important in free TAFE. They represent one in four free TAFE enrolments nationally, and more than 60 per cent of all free TAFE enrolments are from women. The Albanese Labor government is all about building up our workers with the skills they need to get the job they want.

That, of course, is the complete opposite of what we're seeing happening on the other side of the chamber. Instead of the Liberal Party building each other up, they are tearing each other down. Just today we saw more reports that Liberal MPs are already saying their new opposition leader is on borrowed time.

One Liberal went as far as saying this: 'What's not immediately obvious is who's viable as an alternative.' Guess what? You perform like this, and people become viable. They haven't got a viable alternative, but one is going to become viable because of what a shocker of an opposition leader Mr Taylor has become.

We've been out there talking about the cuts and chaos from the Liberals and One Nation. It turns out it's the cuts from One Nation and the chaos of the Liberals after all. Cuts and chaos are not what we need.

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