Queensland’s mining expertise could be the ticket to Space.
A paper published by a Queensland inquiry into job creation opportunities from the establishment of an Australian space industry said the sector needed skilled workers in manufacturing, technology, mining, aviation and defence.
Pam Melroy, from Nova Systems, argued Australians could bring the ingenuity they brought to operating in remote, harsh environments to bear in the next intergalactic steps planned to the moon and Mars.
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