Australia has let people down who want to learn a trade or in agriculture.
Employers found it expensive and hard to accommodate an apprentice who needs to attend college in the bosses time for long periods.
In some trades there may only be one trades person who has employed an apprentice and without the apprentice the trades person cannot do his work as he has no assistance.
Some of the training should be done in the time of the apprentice not the employer.
Proper training facilities need to be setup to allow an apprentice to learn his skills so that when he starts on the job he is of some use.
The loss of government training facilities in many fields has caused a shortage of trades people.