
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jones, Barry 
T1  - CHALLENGES OF THE WORKFORCE AND TRAINING
JF  - The APPEA Journal
JO  - The APPEA Journal
Y1  - 2002
VL  - 42
IS  - 2
SP  - 25
EP  - 28
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/AJ01052 
N2  - The future of the petroleum production and exploration industries must be examined in at least nine contexts: population, social, political, economic, environmental quality, employment and skills, physical flows, resource use and trade. Education and innovation ought to have a major impact on your industries, but universities are facing serious limitations, with a serious decline in students undertaking the enabling sciences (including geosciences), and where an increasing emphasis on the corporatisation of learning /research puts excessive emphasis on the short term.The current political climate discourages serious consideration of complex, long-term factors. Issues such as energy efficiency deserve comprehensive discussion as Australia faces the dilemma of whether to follow the United States pattern of resource use or the European. Australia&#x2019;s extraordinary tradition of urban development suggests that we will be increasingly heavy users of imported fuel. 
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