A new report has found Australia’s energy transition will require 100,000 new skilled electrical workers by 2050. With an incoming energy transition jobs boom, key steps must be taken to avoid a skills shortage.

Michael Wright, National Secretary at the Electrical Trades Union, spoke to 6PR Afternoons host Julie-anne Sprague on the need for workers.

“The rest of the world is facing the same shortage we are, we have to train our own if we are going to get this built,” he said.

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