CANBERRA, ACT, July 23 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release:
MELISSA CLARKE, HOST:Prime Minister, thanks for speaking to AM.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER:Good to be with you, Melissa.
CLARKE: Now you're announcing the expansion of Paid Prac to include another 10 allied health degrees, things like physiotherapy and psychology. Why are allied health fields the focus of this additional support?
PRIME MINISTER:Because these are areas where we do have skill shortages, where we need to encourage people to go into these professions. They tend not to be at the end of the process, you know, the high end of wages at the end. What people want to do though, is to help their fellow Australians and we want to help...