Australia's vocational education and training (VET) system has transformed over the past twenty years in response to changing economic and societal needs. This timeline helps understand the scale of change and the individual policies, programs or initiatives that have shaped VET at both the national and state and territory level. The comprehensive resource also includes economic events that may have influenced enrolments and completions of VET courses, apprenticeships and traineeships.

This timeline is a beta version; content for Western Australia is currently being finalised.