Mr. Regan, I'll answer a couple of those and leave some time for my colleagues.
I should stress that in terms of the organization I am here representing, the Alliance of Sector Councils, it is a coalition of 30 or so.
I'll draw your attention to appendix 1 in our written submission. What we have done is outlined the skill shortage in various key sectors. I don't have a global figure for you, but just to cite a couple of them, the construction industry will need to replace about 150,000 workers in the next 10 years. In the trucking industry there will be a shortage of about 37,000 people a year over the next five years. If you think about that, it means you won't get your Prada fashions, you won't get your loaf of bread delivered to your store, if the trucks aren't running. Trucking is just one of those very important areas.
In terms of the top three recommendations, I'll just mention one, the one we're here to highlight, and that is the partnerships that are formed through sector councils. It's important to stress that they're more than a partnership of talking heads; they're really a partnership of action and of making things happen. What happens within these sector councils is that they identify and implement solutions. You have all the players that are relevant to each of the sectors around the table, and they come up with solutions and actually implement them, whether it's in terms of providing training to people in the workplace or providing courses to high school students or providing courses that will be delivered in high schools, universities, and colleges, or other training.
We're not doing all of this everywhere. Some of the more mature councils that have been around longer are doing a lot more than some of the newer ones that are developing. But it's that kind of partnership for developing and really making things happen, which I think is a hugely successful objective and program that has been part of the federal government's program for a while.