Kookaburra Kitchens apprentice Hayden Michalski takes 3rd at Worldskills

The Northern Daily Leader

For Hayden Michalski, cabinetmaking isn't just a trade - it's an art form. And now, the young TAFE NSW Tamworth student can officially call himself the third-best in the country, returning home from the WorldSkills Australia 2025 National Championships in Brisbane with a bronze medal in tow. Video by Peter Hardin

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00:00That was a huge achievement.

00:09Yeah, no, it is. It's a big thing. Obviously, you go through a series of rounds to get to the Nationals.

00:15Yeah, we got there and ended up bringing home the bronze medal, so I was pretty stoked about it.

00:20Absolutely. And we did the story when you went, I think, last year or two years ago?

00:25Yeah, two years ago.

00:26So how does it feel to try again and this time hit the podium?

00:31Well, yeah, it's definitely more of a sort of a self-improvement kind of thing.

00:38There's a big difference from two years ago to now, so I'm happy with myself.

00:43Good to see that I'm improving. And, yeah, so I'm still on the cards to go to Shanghai.

00:48So I'm pretty stoked about that.

00:50Oh, is there another stage?

00:51Yeah, so International is next.

00:53Oh, so this was the national level competition?

00:56Yeah, so this was out of all of Australia and then the next one was overseas.

01:00But, yeah, just got to go.

01:02Oh, so I was looking for a lot of people on the side of the top.

01:07Oh, no, no.

01:08I'm sorry.

01:09I'm not going for a really long time.

01:11About one of those things?

01:13Yeah, it's fine.

01:14I'm not going for the famous women in the side of the corner.

01:16Oh, no.

01:17Oh, no.

01:18Oh, no, no.

01:19Oh, no.

01:21Okay.

01:22Wow.

01:23It's nice.

01:24Oh, no.

01:25Oh, no.

01:26It's nice.

01:27I'm not going for the cat just to go, no.

01:28Yeah.

01:29Oh, no.

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