QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator WATT (Queensland—Minister for the Environment and Water) (14:17): As I said in my previous answer, the Australian Skills Quality Authority is working closely with Victoria Police and WorkSafe Victoria and contributing to Taskforce Hawk. Taskforce Hawk, of course, was established by the Victoria Police to investigate a range of corruption allegations and criminality allegations made against a range of participants in the Victorian construction industry, including some from unions and including some from employers as well.

Now, I don't think that Senator Hume would expect me to come into a public place like this and talk about the nature of those allegations or what work ASQA has done in investigating those when they are part of an ongoing investigation, but, as I say, it's our government—the Albanese Labor government—that has actually taken action to crack down on shonky VET providers offering dodgy qualifications.

This was allowed to flourish for 10 years under the coalition, and finally we have a government that's taking action.