Just last week, I received this letter in response to that pre-Budget announcement. Perhaps the Opposition member for finance for the National Party received it as well. "Thank you for extending the trades apprenticeship funding. We are so happy at the stability and certainty this will give to my children's futures as they progress through the recently started mechanics and auto-electrical programmes. We all believed this programme would be cancelled from this August, and so we're so excited about what this would mean. I come from an intergenerational depravity, which is extremely difficult and severely restricts our lives daily. Witnessing my kids begin on an actual qualification pathway has been a life-changing and a very positive experience for me."