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00:00 TAFE's going to get a real big boost out of the recent training agreement that we signed
00:04 with the Federal Government.
00:06 We need to do a lot more work in New South Wales to develop the skills for the future
00:10 and part of what we're seeing here in TAFE in Griffith is a really important part of
00:15 that.
00:16 There's been a strong investment in up-to-date equipment in the engineering, the metal facility
00:21 here, and Griffith really is a centre for a lot of that sort of activity around this
00:27 part of New South Wales.
00:28 Well I think the most important thing that's going to be happening over the next few years
00:32 is that we're seeing more money coming into the people side.
00:35 So the Federal Government has increased funding that's coming to New South Wales and we'll
00:40 be working to try and rebuild TAFE, try to get more of the teachers on permanent contracts,
00:46 so a lot of temporary teachers at the moment.
00:49 Make sure we've got enough teachers in the spaces to teach the number of students that
00:54 we need coming through to fill those skills gaps.
00:57 For instance, in Australia overall, just to make the energy transition to net zero
01:04 over the next few years to 2030, we're going to need 213,000 more workers.
01:09 So that tells you when you're looking at the whole scope from the electrical side of
01:14 that through to the welding side and building wind farms and those sort of things, we're
01:17 going to need a lot more people so we've got to keep boosting TAFE to achieve that.
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