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Olympic Dam

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Search complete. 4 mentions across 4 episodes found for "Olympic Dam".

Sep 11, 2026

Paul StarickGUEST
19:52
There's a lot of major projects slated for South Australia.
Paul StarickGUEST
19:54
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.
Paul StarickGUEST
20:14
So there's a lot going on where skilled workers are needed and they're short.
Paul StarickGUEST
20:18
So he argues that you need to bring in migrants to fill many of those jobs.
Paul StarickGUEST
3:40
There's a lot of major projects slated for South Australia.
Paul StarickGUEST
3:44
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.
Paul StarickGUEST
4:02
So there's a lot going on where skilled workers are needed and they're short.
Paul StarickGUEST
4:06
So he argues that you need to bring in migrants to fill many of those jobs.
Marek LocmelisGUEST
16:47
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.
Marek LocmelisGUEST
16:56
The latest really big discovery was Olympic Dam in Australia all the way back in the 70s.
Marek LocmelisGUEST
17:01
And to this day, it's still one of the biggest deposits that we've ever found.
Marek LocmelisGUEST
17:05
And the problem right now seems to be that we have found all the deposits that have been easy to find at the surface.
Will ShackelHOST
2:56
And do those other states such as Queensland, West Australia actually have significant reserves of uranium?
Jonathan FisherGUEST
3:04
So the majority of Australia's resource at the moment does sit at Olympic Dam.
Jonathan FisherGUEST
3:10
But yes, Western Australia has a number of advanced projects and ours is one of them.
Jonathan FisherGUEST
3:16
Queensland has some good opportunity and a couple of advanced projects.

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