00:02TASTAFE offers more than 200 courses, including classes designed to train the next generation
00:08of laboratory technicians.
00:10It's absolutely critical, there's nothing else like it offered anywhere in the state.
00:15Once certified, the lab technicians can do everything from water testing and food quality control
00:21to pathology and school science support.
00:24But from the end of this year, the Diploma and Certificate IV lab courses are being scrapped.
00:30People will have to travel interstate and then we'll lose them to that
00:34and there's just such a huge brain drain here anyway with our young people.
00:38TASTAFE is also ending its agreement with the Tasmanian Prison Service to provide courses to inmates
00:44and it's scaling back its Adult Migrant English program.
00:48That's on top of nine creative courses and a meat processing safety program that ended last year.
00:56TASTAFE says it needs to find $45 million in savings over the next four years
01:02and it's now been confirmed that 44 jobs will go with another 12 roles proposed for the chopping block.
01:09Whether it be people leaving school, whether it be prisoners, whether it be migrants coming into this state,
01:14we need TASTAFE to be there to be their support, to know that they're going to get really strong courses
01:20that are going to mean something to them once they've completed them.
01:22But some believe there could be further cuts if TASTAFE is to achieve its savings target.
01:28The information that we had tabled in Parliament doesn't come anywhere close to $45 million.
01:34The question remains, where are the rest of the cuts going to come from?
01:37Minister Ellis should be transparent with Tasmanians about course cuts and job cuts at TASTAFE.
01:42TASTAFE is an investment in Tasmanians.
01:45We are making decisions about priorities.
01:48Now we'll continue of course to review our course list.
01:51The government also says it's considering selling some TASTAFE properties.
01:56The government also says it's considering selling some TASTAFE properties.
01:58For those in the world we've had to pay them to pay them to pay them both.
01:59We've had to pay them back when you're spending a lot more time at this point.
02:01We've had to pay them to pay them both.
02:01We've had to pay them to pay them nothing, but we've had to pay them to pay them to pay
02:01them
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