Australian state seeks fast-track workers
The state’s training and workforce minister Peter Collier travelled to Ireland in July and says he and the Government discussed using temporary company-sponsored visas to bring “as many as they give us” to the country.
Mr Collier was quoted in the Western Australian newspaper as saying of the long-term unemployed here: “A lot of these people are middle-aged, they’ve been retrenched. So come over to Western Australia, spend 18 months to two years with us, help us out, then you can go home. We’ve got no language barrier, no qualification barriers, it’s a relationship born in heaven.”
