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WAtoday Reports on the Australian Skills Crisis in Mining

Joanna Gaskell - Education Editor | April 18, 2011 | 1:09 pm Education 

Clancy Yeates at WAtoday reports on the eye-popping salaries being received by mining and gas project workers in Western Australia as a result of a massive skills shortage. At an offshore gas project, for example, a welder can pocket more...