Ensuring AUKUS doesn’t sink our essential workforce

We simply cannot afford a scenario where the AUKUS ramp-up further depletes the technical workforce that keeps SA moving, writes Motor Trade Association SA/NT CEO Darrell Jacobs.

The ambition currently surging through South Australia is palpable.

Wherever you look, there is construction and progress. From the recent opening of the Eurimbla Way Bridge, a key milestone in the monumental task of building nuclear-powered submarines, to the massive equipment that adorns kilometres of our largest ever road project on South Road. Nor can we forget the new Women’s and Children’s Hospital, which is emerging from the ground.

It is clear as day, our state’s demand for skilled labour is the biggest it has been in our 189-year history.

Last week, Premier Peter Malinauskas highlighted that “well calibrated skilled migration programs are more urgent than ever before” and went on to say “AUKUS is going to draw people out of both white- and blue-collar jobs from Australian citizens, and we do not have the people to........

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