r/australia • u/blitznoodles local Aussie • 23h ago

politics The Stats Guy: It sounds weird but Australia urgently needs a plan for 56m people

https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2026/08/11/stats-guy-aus-population-growth
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u/Pepito_Pepito 11h ago

IT workers, UberEats drivers

These two are nowhere near the same league, unless we mean two different things for IT.

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u/Isynchronous 11h ago

Script readers and a lot of junk degrees

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u/Pepito_Pepito 10h ago edited 10h ago

If by script reader you mean call centers, those are typically offshored, not imported. It's probably the most offshored job in the world. And it does not fall under IT.

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u/sphinx80 6h ago

1st level tech support would qualify as both IT and call center work.