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Star spreads message Matildas star Elise Kellond-Knight wowed students with a surprise visit to Hampton Park Secondary College. The midfielder delivered an inspiring speech as part of the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence. Story page 20
Student Michael Ninkama was ecstatic to meet Elise KellondKnight. Picture: STEWART CHAMBERS
Workforce crunch By Violet Li Residents at Casey and Cardinia fringes have fewer accessible jobs now than about two and a half decades ago, according to urban economists. Dr Marcus Spiller from SGS Economics and Planning said the access to jobs for the current generation of greenfield areas, which were the current edge of the city, was significantly worse than what it was in earlier generations. Greenfield areas are former rural land in Melbourne’s growth areas that are being developed for housing, typically detached houses,
including the municipalities of Cardinia, Casey, Hume, Melton, Mitchell, Whittlesea, and Wyndham. He found the deterioration on two fronts. The first was the total number of jobs available to the households within a reasonable travel time of 30 minutes. He said in 1996, when Lynbrook was the fringe of Melbourne, its residents could have access to over 370,000 jobs within a half-hour drive in the morning peak, almost a quarter of the metropolitan area’s total number of jobs. In 2001, residents living in Officer, one of
the next generations of growth area suburbs, could access less than 300,000 jobs in the same amount of driving time. In 2023, residents at Pakenham East, the newest fringe of Melbourne, would have access to just over 130,000 jobs, one-fifth of the opportunities available to their counterparts in Lynbrook two and a half decades ago. The 2021 ABS census data showed Casey had around 365,239 residents, as Victoria’s most populous municipality, while it provided a workplace for 86,451 people. Currently, almost 70 per cent of resident
workers must commute outside of Casey for work. Dr Spiller pointed out that job accessibility for professionally qualified people also worsened in the greenfield areas. “What we’ve seen over the decades is those higher paid professional jobs like engineers, accountants, or health sector professionals, have tended to concentrate in the inner and middle parts of the metropolis,” he said. “The jobs that are available to greenfield suburban residents tend to be lower-paid jobs.” Continued page 10
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