Letters to the Editor

Updated November 24 2016 - 11:02pm, first published 11:13am

Are we skilling in the right places?

The 457 visa is of concern. While we should share our ever-so-lucky country with others less fortunate, we sooner or later may realise we have an unemployment problem here. At the old fashioned technical schools, we were taught engineering, sheet metal, woodwork, electrical basics and motor mechanics; plus a good dose of discipline and manners.

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