Skill loss poses threat to Australian manufacturing industry: report
STORY: Skill loss poses threat to Australian manufacturing industry: report
SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 15, 2023
DATELINE: Dec. 16, 2023
LENGTH: 00:01:16
LOCATION: Canberra
CATEGORY: ECONOMY
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1. various of machines
2. various of workers in workshop (file)
STORYLINE:
Australia's manufacturing industry is under threat from a generational loss of skills and expertise, research has warned.
In a study published on Thursday, researchers from the University of South Australia (UniSA) found that a decline in craft skills in employment since 2006 has been exacerbated by some manufacturers moving their operations offshore, causing a loss of knowledge that threatens Australia's ability to sustain a local manufacturing industry.
"The biggest threat to Australia's making economy is its ageing workforce. Australia benefited hugely from trade-skills migration in the decades following WW2 and up until the 1980s we had a strong domestic manufacturing sector," Susan Luckman, author of the study and director of the Creati
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