More than one in four people aged between 15 and 19 in the suburbs around the Kwinana strip is now without work, according to figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics today.
Youth unemployment in the South West Metropolitan Area has steadily increased from 15.4 per cent in November 2008 to a new high of 25.9 per cent in November this year.
The figures highlight the fact that the benefits of WA’s resources construction boom are not flowing through to all members of the community. With projects like Gorgon and Wheatstone now under construction and requiring hundreds of thousands of tonnes of fabricated steel, the fabrication workshops in Kwinana should be booming and creating jobs and apprenticeships for young people who live in the area.
Instead, we are seeing many fabrication contracts head offshore, and local kids are missing out. This is a problem now, but it will also have long term economic effects for WA, as young workers miss out on the opportunity to develop skills and experience that could drive new industries and jobs beyond the resources boom.
This is typical of Aussies just so apathetic our leaders feed us bulldust the media just follow along and we do nothing.It is time for a change and the change comes from the people.For a long time the recourse sector has been allowed to bring “skilled workers” and local content is a joke.Time to stand up Australians
Australia the Lucky Country… Obviously not if you live in the Southern Suburbs of Western Australia and you’re aged between 15 and 19, which is the time when you should be gaining a work ethic… Hard to do when there’s no work to be had… Well done Barnett a great legacy setting up our youth for their future in an unlucky country!
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