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4. People, Training, Skills and Mentoring

Outcome Required “A current shortage of
▪ The Automotive Sector requires a 35,000 skilled automotive
comprehensive agreed sector workers and impacts of
strategy for current and future
future government policy
automotive jobs and training.
must be addressed through
▪ The strategy should outline
a comprehensive
consistent, reliable, and government and industry
guaranteed medium term budget
partnership”
allocations and policy reform
developed in partnership with
MTAA and the automotive sector.

SKILLS SHORTAGE

▪ The Australian automotive industry is experiencing the most
profound skills shortage in its history.

▪ MTAA and members provide the only reliable scan of the state of
the Automotive Sector in the past five years with the release of the
Automotive Directions Report. Through quantitative and
qualitative data analysis and extensive interviews of automotive
business owners, it has been determined the automotive sector
requires an additional 35,000 skilled workers - today.

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