GIPPSTAFE - Training Infrastructure for Broadband Infrastructure

The Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, welcomed the announcement of $16.15 million in new training facilities at Central Gippsland Institute of TAFE (GippsTAFE). These new training facilities will be used to help train workers to build the $43 billion National Broadband Network. This means GippsTAFE will supply some of the on average, 25,000 jobs each year it will take to construct a National Broadband Network over the next 8 years. The $16.15 million announcement will mean GippsTAFE can: upgrade its existing telecommunications, gas and electricity training yard that allows trainees to learn how to lay underground and overhead telecommunications cable; build three new state of the art technology training classrooms; and construct a new fibre optic training room.