When major IT companies downsized in Australia recently South Australia was hard hit with IT redundancies. There are some IT jobs here and the considerable number of out of work IT workers locally who could be trained to do them. Rann,like most English politicians,prefers to import cheap labour from India. He calls that international trade.
Rann calls for skilled tradesmen. Somebody should tell him that the labor party education system closed trade-schools on the premise that in future tradesmen would not be needed in the clever country. Who would carry out skilled trades’ jobs was not explained.
