That the Senate committee inquiring into South Australia TAFE held its one public hearing in Sydney was probably due to a shortage of space in Adelaide, what with there being an election on. But that wasn’t the only thing about the hearing that struck some observers as curious. Yesterday Rod Camm, from the Australian Council for Private Education and Training noted the Labor-Green dominated committee heard from supporters of public sector training.  “My point is that this approach is hardly objective or likely to produce any recommendations that might actually help TAFE,” Mr Camm says.