bordsilver said:
BuggedOut said:
... but I don't see a lot of job creation due to foreign investment. Can you give me some good examples?
Annual average of 7,000 FTE jobs in Australia have been required for the 5 years between FY2013 and FY2017 to build INPEX's Icthys LNG project. Similarly construction of the Gorgon project employed over 7,000 FTE's between 2010-2015. Wheatstone LNG has employed over 5,000 over the past 5 years.
Those projects are winding up or have wound up in some cases. The unemployment number in WA now is 6.3% 2nd worst in the country beating only Tasmania (which doesn't really count

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Thanks to our magnificent liberal state government we will have $33 billion in state debt next year, $40 billion by 2020.
Biggest mining boom in WA history - and that's what we have to show for it....oh and also a new $2 billion stadium that's ahead of schedule.