Labor Waste

Media Release – Christopher Pyne

Having promised to build a trades training centre in all 2650 Australian high schools in 2007, the Rudd/Gillard Government has only built 48 in three years, Christopher Pyne, Shadow Minister for Education said today.

 A new report by the auditor-general has revealed enormous delays in the programme that the Prime Minister insists is being delivered exactly as promised.

 The report indicates that problems between state and federal bureaucracy are the primary cause of the delays, and alarmingly, the lack of progress is being whitewashed from the Federal Government’s annual reporting.  (Section 5.14-5.15)

 “Of the operational facilities, students from sometimes up to ten different schools have to time-share access, often travelling several kilometres back and forth to the trades training centre,” Mr Pyne said.

 “Overall the ANAO has found that only 31 per cent from Round One and Two of the program have begun construction on time, and only 27 per cent completed construction on time. This means a whopping 73 per cent of projects from these two rounds are behind schedule.

 “At this rate it will take thirty years to finish the program. Julia Gillard will be eighty by the time it ends.

 “This Government is simply incapable of delivering anything on time, on budget, or as promised,” Mr Pyne said. 

Source:  Auditor highlights Trade Training delays

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