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RISING unemployment in Europe has driven an influx of Irish and British skilled migrants to labour-strapped pockets of the Australian economy in recent months, government figures show.

But skilled migration from Greece, where unemployment topped 20 per cent in November, remains low as Australian recruiters target already strong labour streams from the British Isles.

The Perth offices of one of the largest global recruiters has noted a surge in Irish and British citizens on temporary visas seeking employer sponsorship. The company’s counterparts on the east coast have reported only a small rise.

”Unfortunately for Victoria we do not have the luxury of mines, we don’t have a resources boom,” said Hays Victoria senior regional director Tim James.’

Helped by campaigns to attract Irish and UK workers, the Hays Perth reception desk felt as if it had ”half of Dublin in it on a Friday afternoon”, said WA senior regional director Simon Winfield.

Irish and British head for Australian jobs, but where are the Greeks? (The Age)

Coming soon: Galway Alberta and Cork, British Columbia.

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(Hat Tip: Mark Geary)

The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, and Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, had to be extracted from a restaurant near Parliament House as angry protesters banged on the glass.
Supporters of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra picketed the Lobby restaurant over comments by Mr Abbott this morning that the tent embassy should close.
As many as 200 gathered in front of the restaurant, banging on its glass walls and yelling “shame” and “racist”.

PM Dragged Away After Being Trapped By Protesters (The Age)

Thanks Mark Geary

UP TO 1,200 jobs in Australia were on offer at an expo in Dublin at the weekend.

The Australia Employment Expo 2011 at the Aviva Stadium featured 18 employers seeking to fill posts as soon as possible in fields such as engineering, nursing and construction.

Diesel fitters were particularly in demand, with one company, Dublin-based Osborne Recruitment, offering 100 such positions.

Western Australia will need 150,000 people to fill posts that will become available over the next five years, according to Keith Seed of the Western Australia Chamber of Commerce. He said Aus$240 billion (€175 billion) worth of projects would go ahead in the area in the next few years.

A how-to-feck-off-out-of-this-kip showcase at the Aviva Stadium? How apt.

Did you attend? How was it?

Up to 1,200 jobs in Australia on offer (Irish Times)

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Ocean Sky: an award-winning time lapse film of Australia’s Southern Ocean Coast by ‘hobbyist astronomer’ Alex Cherney. Sez he:

In August 2009 I took my first long exposure photograph of the night sky. I was so thrilled with the results that I dedicated most moonless weekends since then to photographing two things I love the most in nature – the night sky and the Ocean.

Music by Redmann.

Full screen or not at all, this one.

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