Research Questions: BROAD RESEARCH OF THE CURRENT EMPLOYMENT STATUS: ‘ Township has 0.37 jobs per resident worker’ ‘ The employment provision rate rate in Sunbury is currently low when compared to metropolitan Melbourne’ ‘ Because of Sunbury’s size and proximity to major employment areas in Hume and Melbourne Airport, even when it is fully built out, it is unlikely to provide a metropolitan employment market’. ‘In total, the Sunbury/Diggers Rest Growth Corridor Plan has the capacity to provide between 10000 and 15000 new jobs on its full development although more jobs will be supported if this can be achieved’. ‘Satellite town, due to its proximity to major employment areas in Hume and the Melbourne Airport’. ‘Many of the jobs in this region, either directly or indrectly, depend on the airport and its activities or benefit from being in the airport region. Around 44 per cent of people who live in the local region also work there’. ‘According to data from the National skills Commission from June 2021, Hume Had the highest rate of unemployment (12.1 per cent) of any local government area in the north-west of Victoria’. ‘The job less figure is more than two times that of the state average, which is 4.1 per cent’. ‘Melbourne Airport and the business around it are a major source of jobs for Hume resident’. ‘Given these factors, Sunbury is unlikey to be a location that attracts a large share of the metropolitan employment market, even at its full development’. ‘Higher education and health facilities within the Township, which are key employment generators’.
DRAFT THESIS STATEMENT: Because the limited local employment within Sunbury due to its proximity to Melbourne Airport and existing Sunbury town’s industrial and educational structure is incapable of coping with the rapid population growth that results in the loss of employment opportunities, it poses a serious employment situation crisis to the whole community of Sunbury. Suppose we try to break the employment structure of the existing Sunbury Town Centre and provide more employment and entrepreneurship opportunities for the residents through the new Sunbury South Town Centre building. Will it mitigate the severe employment crisis?