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Australian mining industry needs skilled migrants

10:00 31/01/2011
Calls for increased skilled immigration are coming from Australia's mining industry as unemployment rates down under continue to fall. Goldfields Chamber of Mining and Energy is urging the federal...

Australian businesses call for more skilled immigration

14:00 19/01/2011
Reconstruction efforts in flood-stricken Queensland are expected to make it more difficult to recruit skilled labor for the Australian building industry, causing industry stakeholders to call for...

EU wants to make intra-company transfers easier

10:22 19/01/2011
The European Commission (EC) wants to implement a common immigration policy directive which may make it easier for companies to bring in key-staff members from overseas on a temporary basis. The EU...

Research shows immigrants earn more in US than Canada

11:14 17/01/2011
A new Statistics Canada study shows that highly skilled migrants in Canada earn significantly lower salaries than migrants in the United States. From 1980 to 2005, highly skilled Canadian immigrants...

South Australia attracts skilled migrants

17:17 06/01/2011
The Australian government has signed a state migration agreement with South Australia that will help meet the Australian state's need for skilled migrants. "State migration plans are part of the...

Business leaders urge Australia to increase immigration

14:00 05/01/2011
Business leaders in Australia are urging the Government to speed up applications for skilled migrant workers as it faces labour gaps resulting from a resurgent economy. Also, the Department of...

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