National Endangered Skills and Trades Show Media
Minster willing to look at how we can save skills
Minister Brendan O’Connor is willing to look at the skills Australia Needs for the future. Keep circulating the petition because we there are so many skills disappearing.
Do you have video that needs digitising? Around the world there is enough work for analogue audio experts to be employed for life!
Boiler makers can make more than a lawyer.
Carvers are rarer than anyone. Repair, reuse, recycle, needs us to value what we have and value the skills that made them.
ABC Broadcast, 25 Aug 2023
Mind the Skills Gap: Albanese Government Negotiates with States and Territories on Skills and Training
SIGN OUR PETITION: Endangered Trades and Skills
Across this country hundreds of small business operators are not allowed to take on an apprentice. All these small businesses are deemed so essential they are on the immigration needs lists.
These trades are essential for our economy traders like coopers, farriers, saddlers, stone masons, memorial makers, analog sound engineers, Scientific glass blowers, horologists and even sewing machine repairers, trackers, weavers.
Without these traders we can’t repair reuse and remake. Which is also bad for the environment.
We wont have people to repair our heritage assets which are all part of our 1.6billion dollar tourism industry.
Currently only trades recognised by apprenticeship board can take on apprentices. And that leaves a lot of businesses out. it leaves a lot of young people without work and mentors and it ensures we are never self reliant again.
We need to allow these trades to train. It is time the Minister of employment and Minister for Education met to discuss how to actually save these trades.
The window is closing because these traders are not young and soon it will be too late to capture their knowledge and skills.
How can we support rare trades and our next generation?
Why are Australia’s smaller trades disappearing?
Victoria Pearce is the Director and Senior Conservator at Endangered Heritage, and aims to reignite interest in rare trades because if she can conserve tangible heritage, why not intangible heritage?
She spoke to ABC Radio Canberra about the need to reverse legislation to ensure these trades have an apprenticeship space and can train the next generation.
Victoria Pearce will be displaying her skills at the National Endangered Skills and Trades show being held at the Old Bus Depot Markets in Canberra on the 13th to 15th of October, 2023.
ABC NEWS ARTICLE, 12 Aug 2023
Bottom of the Barrel: Australia’s Endangered Trades Cry Out for Support
How are wheelchair bicycles designed? Meet Bikecologist Wayne Kotzur
Have you ever wondered how a wheelchair bicycle is designed?
Gundaroo ‘Bikecologist’ Wayne Kotzur designs custom bikes, trikes and quadricycles to help get everyone riding a bicycle.
He spoke to ABC Radio Canberra’s Georgia Stynes about what happens behind the scenes to build a wheelchair bicycle.
Wayne Kotzur will be displaying his skills at the National Endangered Skills and Trade show being held in Canberra during the July 2021 school holidays.
Find out about disappearing skills at the 2021 National Endangered Skills and Trades Show in Canberra
Have you ever tried to fix an old watch? … There are some disappearing trade skills in Australia that are in high demand.
Traditional crafts like French polishing, clock repairs, and art conservators include skills that are sought after today.
Canberra will be hosting the National Endangered Skills and Trade Show in July 2021. The organiser Victoria Pearce from Endangered Heritage spoke to ABC Radio Canberra Afternoons host Georgia Stynes about the disappearing skills and knowledge.
