Burnie

So I started playing at school.

I was just with some friends that played hockey and we had some teachers at school in Burnie, Tasmania.

Went to a- The deep south.

Yeah, the deep, deep south.

And so we had some teachers that were into hockey and they ran some sort of school, you know, clinics.

And yeah, just decided to start playing and just really loved it.

And a few of my mates played and in our hometown of Burnie, hockey was actually a big thing.

So we had like grass fields, which were next to our local sand based hockey turf and it's called McKenna Park.

Bye-bye.

Michael's in Burnie.

Morning, Michael.

Morning,

Well,

that was the bloke on the central coast in New South Wales.

Where are you? You're in Burnie.

Burnie,

So just quickly some results from last weekend's first grade.

So Riverside beat Burnie.

Burnie all out for 117.

Riverside got them three down.

Cooper-Anth's got a 60.

They can't just rely on Nick to score their runs every week, so that's their issue with the bat, obviously.

Their bowling's okay, so they just didn't bat well enough on the weekend against Mowbray, and Mowbray knocked the runs over in short time.

Didn't take them long to get the runs at all, so that'll be the key for Burnie, just to score some runs.

on.

Further up the coast, so Burnie undecided, Wynyard undecided, yeah?

Yes, but looking good for two ladies that we know very well, which is incredible.

So we'll just have to see how that pans out.

Yeah, it was.

The person in Burnie wouldn't do it, but I had to go further, if you will, to Devonport, which is an hour drive from where I live, and that's where I found the teacher.

But it wasn't actually found by me.

It was found by a friend of mine for a late birthday present.

Good run from Jude, 28-30, and Matt Ramson was third in 28-31.

So that's the Australian 10K Championships, which was down in Burnie.

Always fast.

Probably not as deep as usual.

I feel like the top end is deep but then that sort of sub elite of like 30 to 32 is not as deep.

It's not the easiest place to get to.

It's like it's Burnie.

So you kind of fly.

Call to the Minister for Skills and the Minister for Training.

Thanks very much Speaker and thank you to my friend the Member for Braddon firstly for coming down from the other place to join us here and secondly for such a warm welcome to Burnie last Friday.

Speaker, the Albanese Labor Government wants to see more Australians with vocational qualifications and to that end we are pulling every lever we can to make skills and training accessible to everyone in every part of the country.

Because we want to see more Aussies in places like Tasmania's North West, go to TAFE.

It's nation leading.

And with Free Tape, our government is backing more Tasmanians to get the skills they need to grow that critical pipeline of workers Australia needs for local jobs in the agricultural sector.

And just up the road at TasTape's Burnie campus, the member for Braddon and I were joined by my Tasmanian counterpart, Minister Ellis, as well as my good friend, Senator De Liga, to open brand new student residences on campus, jointly funded by both governments, part of the Clean Energy Tape Centre of Excellence.

so that the next generation of TAFE students and apprentices too, like Zeke and Luke who we met on Friday, can get the training they need without worrying about finding a place to stay, breaking down yet another barrier that has held back too many regional learners.