1. Economic Impact Assessment of the NRWMF
Kimba South Australia
Kimba Consultative Committee, Thursday 26 July 2018

2. Construction phase
Table 1: Construction phase spending under the central case scenario, 2021 – 2024, $million
Table 2: Direct Construction employment under the central case scenario (FTE)
Table 3: Migrant worker expenditure under the central case scenario ($ million)

3. Operational phase Ongoing employment of 45 FTE
Figure 1: Operational costs under the central case scenario (real 2018 $ million)
Ongoing employment of 45 FTE
34 FTE retrained from existing local workforce (conservatively assumed, non additional)
11 FTE relocated outside the area
Generating a wage premium of $2.1 million per year
No account of any funding under the Community Benefits Program

4. Dynamic modelling process
Figure 2: Stylised results

5. Modelling results – Central Case

6. Modelling results – Local Content Scenarios

7. Modelling results – Labour Market Sensitivity Scenarios

8. Evidence of economic impacts – comparable sites – Sydney house prices
Figure 3: Quarterly median house prices over the last five years
Source: Data from

9. Evidence of economic impacts – comparable sites – Port Hope Canada
Figure 4: Share of employment by industry sector (% of employees), 2016
Source: Cadence Economics estimates, from Canadian Census 2016

10. Evidence of economic impacts – comparable sites – Aube France
Figure 5: Share of employment by industry sector (% of employees), 2011
Source: Cadence Economics estimates, from French Census 2011
Source: Cadence Economics estimates, from Canadian Census 2016