Tuesday Headlines: 

• Trump says US will collect tolls in the Strait of Hormuz
• Sydney daycare worker accused of abusing 150 children
• Alleged DV murder victim’s family attend court vowing to fight for justice
• Albanese to unveil AI vision as Labor plots hands-on approach
• Tributes flow for actor Sam Neill, after his death at the age of 78

Deep Dive: Australia has been plagued by a chronic skills shortage in recent years, exacerbated by declining apprentice numbers, the pandemic and a cultural shift towards university as the preferred post-school pathway. 

Labor has this week claimed a couple of big wins in this space, talking up 814,000 TAFE enrolments in the last three years and more than 30,000 new apprentices in the past 12 months, off the back of two key policy roll outs. 

But do these numbers tell the full story? Is Australia’s tradie crisis really close to being solved? In this episode of The Briefing, Skills and Training Minister Andrew Giles joins Sacha Barbour Gatt to discuss. 

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