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Australian treasurer Wayne Swan says first train new miners, then look to skilled migration

MINING.COM Staff Writer | May 03, 2011 | 1:09 pm Education 

Wayne Swan has rejected calls for a large boost to permanent migration. Instead, he claims that his budget will create 500,000 new jobs and drive unemployment to 4.5 per cent. Short-term shortages in the mining and other industries can be...