Legislative Council - Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)
2015-10-13 Daily Xml

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Skills for All

The Hon. T.A. FRANKS (14:53): Did the whole-of-government submission preclude TAFE SA from also making a standalone individual submission?

The Hon. G.E. GAGO (Minister for Employment, Higher Education and Skills, Minister for Science and Information Economy, Minister for the Status of Women, Minister for Business Services and Consumers) (14:53): Sorry? Did the—

The Hon. T.A. FRANKS: —whole-of-government submission preclude TAFE SA from making an individual stand-alone submission?

The Hon. G.E. GAGO: The government made a decision that it would make a whole-of-government submission. I can't recall that we were prescriptive in what TAFE's position would be. I did make it very clear that there would be a whole-of-government response, not separate responses to the commission and they would be incorporated in one submission. Now, I have said that a thousand ways. TAFE participated in that willingly. As I said, they provided us with information that we considered and incorporated components into the submission, just as I said we derived information from a range of different parts of government where we did the same thing and incorporated one overall response.