FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - immigration to Australia
View Single Post
Old Jan 24, 2006 | 12:59 am
  #15  
prspad
 
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Southern California
Programs: The usual for over 7 Million paid miles flown to date... My first paid flight was on a DC3.
Posts: 1,518
Originally Posted by ecaarch
I just got just came back from SYD and MEL. I was very surprised to see several adverts in tourist booklets in Melbourne from the government of Victoria seeking skilled people willing to immigrate there. I had always heard that Australia was very closed to immigration. Evidently not.

PS - I saw the same thing in New Zealand.

The Los Angeles Times Business Section printed an article a few days ago with the Heading and Sub-Heading: "Seeking People to Work Down Under
Australia, which is facing a shortage of skilled labor, is looking abroad to fill the gap"

The article is here...
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...ck=1&cset=true

Last edited by prspad; Jan 24, 2006 at 1:02 am
prspad is offline