Up & Coming Geoscientists - a sample of our AIG Honours Bursary Recipients

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Latest Employment Survey “ It’s profoundly troubling to see so many highly qualified, experienced, committed professionals unable to apply their skills to contributing to Australia’s economic security” AIG President, Wayne Spilsbury, expressed disappointment but no surprise in the latest survey results. “It’s profoundly troubling to see so many highly qualified, experienced, committed professionals unable to apply their skills to contributing to Australia’s economic security” Mr Spilsbury said. “The situation in mineral and energy resource exploration is particularly troubling as the prolonged downturn in the sector is damaging Australia’s exploration project pipeline”. “The low levels of geoscientist employment reflect low levels of exploration activity, which means that we are not making discoveries to maintain Australia’s resource inventory which now has potential to create gaps in critical mineral supplies in coming years” Mr Spilsbury said. “Discoveries do not turn into mines overnight”. “We’re not exploring now and the industry cannot be switched back on overnight, so we’re facing a real prospect of reduced development of new projects to support Australia’s economy and standard of living into the latter half of the next decade”. “Its also very concerning that both the Federal and State governments are failing to act on important issues to enhance Australia’s ability to attract investment in exploration; most notably the time and expense of securing access to land for exploration” Mr Spilsbury said. 18 AIG NEWS Issue 123 · February 2016
Latest Employment Survey “There are a couple of cold, hard facts we Changes in fields of employment for Australian geoscientists 2014-2015 need to recognise and deal with” Mr Spilsbury said. “When we talk about a geologist or geophysicist being unemployed in the exploration sector, we’re also talking about three or four other Australians not having a job”. “We also cannot escape the fact that minerals are essential to our daily life, from generation of electricity by any means, to providing raw materials used to ensure our future economic and social well-being”. “Australian geoscientists working in exploration and mining are demonstrably the best in the world when it comes to optimising resource utilisation and ensuring that production proceeds in an environmentally sustainable and responsible manner” M
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