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The Trade Deficit: Why Failing to Train Our Own is Failing Us All

July 13, 2025 Tradesmen, Uncategorized 0

A dramatic mid-century illustration of a tradesman holding a spanner against a faded national map backdrop, symbolizing the decline of skilled trades in modern society.

It sounds like the start of a joke—an Australian butcher offers $130,000 a year and 140 people apply. Every one of them is from overseas. Not a single local apprentice. No qualified candidate. Just a pile of resumes from far-off places and silence on home soil. This isn’t just about …

In Defense of Teenage Boys on E-Bikes Again: The Actual Menace Has a Number Plate
It sounds like the start of a joke—an Australian butcher offers $130,000 a year and 140 people apply. Every one of them is from overseas. Not a single local apprentice. No qualified candidate. Just a pile of resumes from far-off places and silence on home soil. This isn’t just about …
The Quiet Comeback of the Family Compound (and Why So Many People Secretly Want It)
It sounds like the start of a joke—an Australian butcher offers $130,000 a year and 140 people apply. Every one of them is from overseas. Not a single local apprentice. No qualified candidate. Just a pile of resumes from far-off places and silence on home soil. This isn’t just about …
The Two Missing Crowds: Boys in Lecture Theatres, Women on the Tools
It sounds like the start of a joke—an Australian butcher offers $130,000 a year and 140 people apply. Every one of them is from overseas. Not a single local apprentice. No qualified candidate. Just a pile of resumes from far-off places and silence on home soil. This isn’t just about …
Australia Needs a “Cycling Mikey” Moment — Because the Road Isn’t a Throne
It sounds like the start of a joke—an Australian butcher offers $130,000 a year and 140 people apply. Every one of them is from overseas. Not a single local apprentice. No qualified candidate. Just a pile of resumes from far-off places and silence on home soil. This isn’t just about …
40 Hours to Life Sentence
It sounds like the start of a joke—an Australian butcher offers $130,000 a year and 140 people apply. Every one of them is from overseas. Not a single local apprentice. No qualified candidate. Just a pile of resumes from far-off places and silence on home soil. This isn’t just about …