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 SHOTLIST: 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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