Sunrise industries: Leading the Revolution

Abstract

Since the mid-1970s there has been a growing recognition that Australia's economic base has been, undergoing a fundamental change — a decline in employment in manufacturing and a growth in employment in services (many increasingly marginal and peripheral), altered patterns in consumer demand generally (from hardware to software'), the development of technologies which are far less dependent on cheap raw materials and abundant energy and far more on access to high and rising levels of skill.