Been fortunate enough to have my licences issued before the cut off date. Which I know now has been extended. I know many people pushed hard to make an application. My biggest concern is the lack of a pathway for apprentices for a licencing outcome.
WA's TAFE isn't an approved training provider but apprentices still have to attend because of funding rules .I don't believe that the NT has a training provider.
Friends got caught up in the the QIAE fiasco and are now 5th year apprentices who have to re-sit all their theory before getting passed out as tradesmen. Not sure the Archerfield provider has accreditation yet either.
Will be a definite lack of engineers in the future. You can scream that from the mountain tops but wont be heard. Guess Abbott is planning on bringing in Chinese LAME's