Miners Find Some Positives In Federal Budget Offering
Below is some Budget Commentary from some mining industry leaders Andrew Dinning, Managing Director of Sarama Resources On the National Skills Agreement: The increase in funding under the National Skills Agreement will hopefully flow through to developing the labour pool, and anything that increases workforce skills and participation rates is positive for industry and business in general. However this initiative is unlikely to address immediate needs. The industry is suffering from a dearth of quality tradespeople and skilled participants which is having a detrimental impact on costs and quality of output. The mining industry and society in general desperately need a significant increase in skilled and quality labour and a much broader pool of skilled individuals from which to recruit....