
Olympic Dam
Village in Australia
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Search complete. 4 mentions across 4 episodes found for "Olympic Dam".
Sep 11, 2026
Mornings with Graeme Goodings - 11 September 2026
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19:52Paul StarickGUEST
There's a lot of major projects slated for South Australia.
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19:54Paul StarickGUEST
We Olympic Dam expansion possibly, or like probably, AUKUS nuclear submarine construction on the books as a $30 billion shipyard, $30 billion plus shipyard now being built down at Osborne, and the $15.4 billion South Road tunnels.
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20:14Paul StarickGUEST
So there's a lot going on where skilled workers are needed and they're short.
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20:18Paul StarickGUEST
So he argues that you need to bring in migrants to fill many of those jobs.
The Week in State Politics with Paul Starick - 11 September 2026
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3:40Paul StarickGUEST
There's a lot of major projects slated for South Australia.
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3:44Paul StarickGUEST
Olympic Dam expansion, possibly, or like probably, AUKUS nuclear submarine construction on the books as a $30 billion shipyard, $30 billion plus shipyard now being built down at Osborne, and the $15.4 billion South Road tunnels.
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4:02Paul StarickGUEST
So there's a lot going on where skilled workers are needed and they're short.
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4:06Paul StarickGUEST
So he argues that you need to bring in migrants to fill many of those jobs.
Professor Marek Locmelis | S4E1 | Science, Y'all!
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16:47Marek LocmelisGUEST
Well, the biggest issue that we have right now, as I mentioned, is that we haven't really found any big deposits over the last 20, 30 years.
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16:56Marek LocmelisGUEST
The latest really big discovery was Olympic Dam in Australia all the way back in the 70s.
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17:01Marek LocmelisGUEST
And to this day, it's still one of the biggest deposits that we've ever found.
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17:05Marek LocmelisGUEST
And the problem right now seems to be that we have found all the deposits that have been easy to find at the surface.
Uranium Paradox in Australia Explained | Jonathan Fisher, Uranium CEO
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2:56Will ShackelHOST
And do those other states such as Queensland, West Australia actually have significant reserves of uranium?
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3:04Jonathan FisherGUEST
So the majority of Australia's resource at the moment does sit at Olympic Dam.
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3:10Jonathan FisherGUEST
But yes, Western Australia has a number of advanced projects and ours is one of them.
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3:16Jonathan FisherGUEST
Queensland has some good opportunity and a couple of advanced projects.