around 2000, a tafe centre was built in commerce avenue as part of the south-east metropolitan college of tafe; it became a fully functioning campus in 2003 when semc merged into swan tafe, then become a campus of polytechnic west and in 2016 merged with challenger institute of technology to become south metropolitan tafe. in 2010, the federal government opened a campus of the australian trades college specialising in carpentry and joinery, cabinet making and electrical trades.