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Thousands of Irish workers wanted in Australia says Aussie minister

CATHAL DERVAN,

IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

Published Sunday, October 2, 2011, 8:29 AM

Updated Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:48 AM

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Perth, Australia

Australia wants the Irish to work – in their thousands according to a regional government Minister at a Dublin employment conference.

Families queued in the rain to attend the Working Abroad Expo at the RDS where experts offered key advice on work prospects for those ready to emigrate.

Rob Knight, Northern Territory Minister for Business and Employment, told those present that Australia has tens of thousands of jobs to fill and said his region alone desperately needs skilled workers for the construction, mining and services industry.

Knight, who confirmed that unemployment in the Northern Territory was at around 4%, openly invited Irish jobseekers to consider his region of Australia.

“We need people with skills and we need them fast,” said the Minister at the event that also attracted prospective employers from Canada and New Zealand.

One recruitment company attended the event with the sole intention of recruiting 500 construction workers for vacancies in Western Australia.

A spokesman for Osborne Recruitment said it had experienced a ‘surge in demand’ from the region, which is experiencing a mining and mineral boom.

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Estimates say the region will need 150,000 extra workers by 2017.

Brendan Murphy, CEO of Osborne Recruitment, said “Emigration is now a possibility for families as well as younger single people.

“It can be a great opportunity for single people and families alike. Many of our clients pay for the relocation of full families supplying them with accommodation and support in finding good schools for employee’s children.

“Irish workers are greatly in demand in Australia, as our education system has traditionally been recognized as very strong.

“Our clients are seeking Irish employees in particular as they have found them to be reliable and hard workers. Irish productivity rates are among the highest in the OECD and in Europe for many years.

“Our clients also find that Irish workers integrate well into the workplace, socially and culturally.”

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skyrider | Mar 17, 2012, 10:26 AM EDT

Australia's probably envied by most places. Take it from an expert. Australia Meteorically @ the Fore

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Searlit | Oct 09, 2011, 01:21 PM EDT

Working in the mining industry doesn't sound like a good job.

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GeorgeDillon | Oct 03, 2011, 03:37 PM EDT

Treacle, judging by the huge numbers of Chinese I saw in Dublin a month or two ago, there'll be a Chinese Taoiseach long before there's a Chinese in the White House. But say, how come they haven't accepted you for Van Diemens Land, treacle? Don't have any skills to offer? Writing internet garbage don't qualify as a usable skill? Or has sean, the guy from melbourne carved out a monopoly on Down Under dirt?

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greensod | Oct 03, 2011, 12:08 PM EDT

Skilled and educated leave Ireland by the thousands,as the Government officials waste time and the tax payers money spreading lies about Martin McGuinness and printing some type of useless certificates to sell as a scam to people of Irish decent in foreign lands.Looks like Ireland that was once known as the land of Saints and Scholars,is becoming the land of Thieves and Crooks.The only hope for Ireland is Martin,Gerry,Pierce,and Mary lou McDonald.

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Trealach | Oct 03, 2011, 07:54 AM EDT

It's interesting how Countries like Australia always come to Ireland for BRAINS AND SKILLED workers!! Maybe we should become like BraindeadDillon and just sit on our asses and IMPORT EVERYTHING FROM CHINA - and then SELL OUT TO THE CHINESE. Won't be long before we see a CHINESE President!! ROFLMAO

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Buncronin | Oct 03, 2011, 02:18 AM EDT

I am delighted that there IS work for the Irish even if it is in Australia, my brother and his wife will be 2 of those people. I for one lived abroad and had this stupid notion to move back home to settle , what a joke, nothing worked out and employment for my husband was zero. We packed the bags and moved back to the USA and we are here 11 years and have never looked back. Irish people do not run ad hide as someone on here has said, they fight to pay their own way and feed their own families and if that means leaving Ireland to do it , I commend them as anyone living away from home with a family knows how many sacrifices we make to provide for our families.

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macalister | Oct 02, 2011, 09:14 PM EDT

A picture of Perth to attract people to The Northern Territory. That's a hell of a long way away.!Make sure you'll be paid as a "skilled" worker and not have to work your way up from square one for 2 years,regardless of your level of Skill.

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GeorgeDillon | Oct 02, 2011, 02:25 PM EDT

Even as the Irish abandon their country, the place is filling up with foreign criminals and welfare leeches. Many readers will have read about the Bosnian family that's pulling in over $120K a year from Irish welfare. They're breaking no law--the Irish are stupid enough to pay them for existing--but there are also the criminals such as the large Romanian gang that was pulled in a couple of days back for a string of robberies around Dublin, or the Roma guy who was charged today with murder of a bar owner (a very nasty slaughter, it appears, possibly including castration of his victim). Foreign migrants make up fully one third of the occupants of Irish jails. It seems the Irish feel they don't have enough native hoods and criminals, they have to import them also. What sane person would want to live in that kind of dump, except migrants who are coming in from even worse places?

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Yardleypa | Oct 02, 2011, 02:05 PM EDT

The government will probably want to impose an an exit tax on all immigrants.I see electricity is going up 22% gas heat is going up 15% also a new water tax going on in a lot of case more than 50% of paycheck being taken then you have 22%vat gasoline tax it never ends.I would stick my certificate of irishness in my pocket and head to oz

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cuddlybuddly | Oct 02, 2011, 12:42 PM EDT

Time to leave this God forsaken joke of a country

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GeorgeDillon | Oct 02, 2011, 12:24 PM EDT

Just as thousands of young Irish men and women leave for Australia, thousands of Indians, Poles, Pakis etc. are streaming into Ireland. It's called ethnosuicide. By the middle of this century the Irish will be just another ethnic minority in their own ancient homeland. You can already see it happening if you happen to pass by an Irish school when the children are leaving--you see that the Irish are in a minority. On one level I don't blame the young Irish--I'd want to get the hell out if I was in their situation--I blame the lousy Irish political class, be it Fianna Fail, Fine Gael Sinn Fein or whoever. They're all useless jerks. But having said I don't blame the young Irish, I gotta say that there is something weird about the Irish. They appear to have very little attachment to their homeland. Portugal and Greece are in a bigger crisis than Ireland, yet you don't see the Portuguese or Greeks abandoning their country by the thousands. There's room here for an anthropological study--how come the Irish run away instead of standing and fighting?

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donal1951 | Oct 02, 2011, 12:01 PM EDT

If I were younger, I'd move to Australia myself. Fair play to those who take job offers there, and they may find they like the country well enough to make it a new home.

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LoyalCitizen | Oct 02, 2011, 10:46 AM EDT

According to Irish Politicians, Financial Media Ireland is doing well..............Do you leave or do you stay?

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haasny007 | Oct 02, 2011, 09:45 AM EDT

Great news for Irishwomen and men looking for employment opportunities overseas!

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