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Australia is relaxing its migration programme to allow more skilled workers into the country.
The Government said it would expand the skilled migration programme by 6000 in 2007-08, bringing the total number of visas to 108,500.
The unemployment rate has been under 5 per cent since 2006 and figures out last week showed it falling to a fresh 33-year low of 4.1 per cent in January.