@tomhawleymortgagebroker: Trade apprenticeship commencements dropped 10% in the 12 months through 2025. We need 116,000 construction workers just to have a shot at the government's housing target of 1.2 million homes by 2029. Unfortunately we are more focused on having 55% of young Australians holding a university degree by 2050. I'm not anti-education. But what’s the point of it??? Degrees have lost their value. That's not a plan. That's a problem. We have a housing crisis. We have an infrastructure crisis. We have an energy transition to fund. All of it needs tradies. None of it needs more graduates who can't find work in their field. You cannot fix a housing supply crisis without fixing the trades pipeline first.

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Thursday 02 July 2026 08:00:22 GMT