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Tim Ayres's blog
Jun 17, 2010
Tim Ayres
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1.3 billion reasons to build our buses, trains and ferries here


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Here in NSW, manufacturing workers build everything from passenger train carriages through to massive naval air warfare destroyers.

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But in recent years, more and more of our transport manufacturing contracts have gone to low-cost overseas competitors.

Buses and rail rolling stock, along with all sorts of other heavy equipment, are commonly imported from China in tube or flat-pack form. After they’re shipped over, the skilled NSW tradespeople who used to build these buses and trains from scratch now assemble and fit them out.

This trend puts valuable jobs, skills and apprenticeship opportunities at risk.

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