Karen Andrews announces $5m funding for engineering graduate students to work in “the automotive sector.” “Australia has a thriving automotive components sector and is competitive in global vehicle design. We need more of the highly skilled engineers involved in these areas … in order to compete internationally in the rapidly changing space of vehicle design,” the Minister for Industry, Science and Technology says. And won’t that cheer up all the skilled workers who lost jobs when the auto-builders closed, on the Coalition’s watch.