QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator GROGAN (South Australia—Deputy Government Whip in the Senate) (14:56): My question is to the Minister for Early Childhood Education and the Minister for Youth, Minister Walsh. On National TAFE Day, we've already heard how free TAFE is opening doors for Australians, and we know early learning is one of the sectors benefiting significantly from free TAFE.

But, to build the early learning workforce, we need to bring more educators into the sector, and we need to keep experienced educators in the jobs that we know they love. Can the minister outline how the Albanese Labor government is using free TAFE to bring more people into early learning and what it's doing to help educators stay in the sector?