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09/05/25
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Originally posted by kingpins:
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Not the whole problem, although your comments are certainly part of the problem Also, are the imported workers well qualified or just simply hard workers who protect their turf TAFE was commercialised School standards were lowered Training courses were decimated, a 5 year apprenticeship became a 3 month course Apprentices were paid such high wages that employers could not waste their time in training them The government in collusion with Unions deliberately wrecked any chance of producing enough Australian tradesmen or women Ask yourself why
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The other big problem is so many are either too incompetent or lazy to do things themselves and need to use tradies. If those tradies were freed up they could work on the larger jobs