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The Hon Andrew Giles MP

  • Minister for Skills and Training

The Hon Andrew Giles MP was sworn in as Minister for Skills and Training on 13 May 2025.

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Future Skills Organisation National Forum Canberra

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Release type: Speech

Date: 13 August 2025

Ministers:

  • The Hon Andrew Giles MP

Interview with Kylie Baxter - ABC Tasmania Statewide Drive

Subjects: Visit to Burnie; Free TAFE enrolments in Tasmania; Health workforce; Student debt relief; Women in trades.

Release type: Transcript

Date: 6 August 2025

Ministers:

  • The Hon Andrew Giles MP

Interview with Patrick Doran and Ravyn Bell - Sea FM Tasmania

Subjects: Visit to Burnie; Free TAFE enrolments in Tasmania; Lifelong learning.

Release type: Transcript

Date: 6 August 2025

Ministers:

  • The Hon Andrew Giles MP

Launch of the Manufacturing Industry Skills Alliance Workforce Plan 2025

I’m really pleased to be here today – not only to launch this new Workforce Plan, but also to recognise the work that the Manufacturing Alliance is doing to support the industry.

Release type: Speech

Date: 5 August 2025

Ministers:

  • The Hon Andrew Giles MP

Managing a sustainable international education sector

The Albanese Government is today announcing a National Planning Level of 295,000 international student places for 2026, providing stability and certainty for the international education sector.

Release type: Joint Media Release

Date: 4 August 2025

Ministers:

  • The Hon Jason Clare MP
  • The Hon Tony Burke MP
  • The Hon Andrew Giles MP
  • The Hon Julian Hill MP

Albanese Government cuts 20 per cent off all student debts

The Albanese Labor Government has today cut all student debts by 20 per cent.We are wiping more than $16 billion in debt for more than three million Australians. 

Release type: Joint Media Release

Date: 31 July 2025

Ministers:

  • The Hon Anthony Albanese MP
  • The Hon Jason Clare MP
  • The Hon Andrew Giles MP

Interview with Tom Connell - SKY News Politics Now

SUBJECTS: Cutting student debt; Tertiary education sector; Free TAFE; Housing.

Release type: Transcript

Date: 23 July 2025

Ministers:

  • The Hon Andrew Giles MP

Doorstop - Parliament House, Canberra

SUBJECTS: Cutting student debt; Early education child safety legislation; Free TAFE.

Release type: Transcript

Date: 23 July 2025

Ministers:

  • The Hon Jason Clare MP
  • The Hon Andrew Giles MP
  • Senator the Hon Jess Walsh MP

Albanese Government introduces legislation to cut every student debt by 20 per cent

The Albanese Labor Government is today introducing legislation to cut 20 per cent off all student debts. 

Release type: Joint Media Release

Date: 23 July 2025

Ministers:

  • The Hon Anthony Albanese MP
  • The Hon Jason Clare MP
  • The Hon Andrew Giles MP

VETASSESS Allyship Conference

Good morning.I’d like to start by acknowledging the traditional custodians of the land you’re meeting on today and pay my respects to their elders past and present.

Release type: Speech

Date: 22 July 2025

Ministers:

  • The Hon Andrew Giles MP

170,000 and counting: Free TAFE completions continue to rise

Australians are making the most of the opportunity to gain new qualifications and skills through the Albanese Government’s Free TAFE program, with new data revealing more than 170,000 Free TAFE…

Release type: Media Release

Date: 20 July 2025

Ministers:

  • The Hon Andrew Giles MP

Press conference - CIT Woden

Subjects: CIT Woden campus launch; ACT GPs; ACT-NSW border

Release type: Transcript

Date: 18 July 2025

Ministers:

  • The Hon Andrew Giles MP