Rudd Trade Training Centre Promise Broken

In 2007 Mr Rudd promised a Trade Training Centre for all 2,650 high schools in Australia delivered over ten years at a cost of $2.5 billion.

As of May 2013 Mr Rudd has delivered 252 Trade Training Centres or 10 per cent of the promised Trade Training Centres. 

For Kevin Rudd to deliver the remaining 2398 Trade Training centres by 2018, he would need to start opening at least one Trade Training Centre a day.  

If the roll-out continued at the current pace it would take 25 years to deliver in full and as promised.

Labor today announced they have committed $200 million to build 137 centres, which is an average cost of $1.4 million a Trade Training Centre. This promise comes after they delayed funding for the trade training centres in the 2012 Budget.

But as of May 2013 the 252 Trade Training Centres Labor have built cost around $1.1 billion or on average $4 million per Trade Training centre.

Either today’s announcement is massively underfunded, or the schools are going to receive only a third of a Trade Training Centre. None of the figures in Mr Rudd’s announcement add up. 

Mr Rudd is slashing education funding by $4.7 billion cutting from higher education, apprenticeships, training.

Why should anyone trust Kevin Rudd now, when he failed to deliver on his 2007 promises? 

14 August 2013