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August 19, 2012
Adelaide wants its groove back. It desires to be a vibrant, fun city like Melbourne, which celebrates itself as the world's most liveable city. Adelaide, as a compact regional city, is encouraging local enthusiasms—bicycles, food carts, microbrews, artisanal whatnot, regional food, wine etc. Über-hip Adelaide is the new brand.
Gary Sauer-Thompson, Gilbert St, Adelaide
The problem is that it has a bleak labour market. Adelaide is an economic backwater. It has yet to benefit from the national shift to a low carbon economy, even though renewable energy has taken off in South Australia.
Renewable energy is not a growth industry because there is no manufacturing of wind-turbine or solar panels in the state. There is also the well-educated “creatives” living in the precarious “knowledge economy” on a contract-to-contract basis. So the quality of life undercuts the liveable city.
What is not happening is the slow, boring work of improving a local area’s educational attainment as path to prosperity in an informational economy. Adelaide needs to have a large numbers of skilled workers who will either attract employers from outside or else lay the groundwork for homegrown success, as well as become a vibrant city.
Little is being done to address rising sea levels. Similarly with increased heat waves which are exacerbated by the urban heat island effect. This is where the centres of a large agglomeration get several degrees warmer than their surrounding rural areas because heat is captured in solid structures such as buildings and roads.
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It is a shame because S.A is a great place. Its all about mining now as you know in regards to skilled workers.
I have just joined the FIFO gang myself so i am not totally up on it yet.
Are mining jobs being advertised from S.A fifo to hedland and bowen basin regions? Or are the tradesmen packing up and moving to the regions?