Mining industry invents engineering shortage

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By Leith van Onselen

Australia’s mining industry continues to ramp-up rhetoric about so-called skills shortages and wage pressures, softening-up the government to open the immigration floodgates. From The Australian:

While signs of skills shortages are becoming evident in the industry as conditions improve, mining bosses are more worried about enrolments in courses like mining engineering and metallurgy that have fallen off a cliff in recent years.

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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.