The Commonwealth of Australia is officially extending a helping hand to Greece, a country currently being put to the test by the ongoing financial crisis. “Skills Australia Needs,” a two-day event scheduled to take place in Athens on October 8 and 9, is being set up by the Australian government’s Department of Immigration & Citizenship to provide information to Greek citizens interested in emigrating to that country.
* - Only those with useful skills are invited. There's no need for the public employee union members to show up. They get to stay behind and cannibalize an ever-dwindling set of productive people.
It's not too surprising that Australia would be taking a particular interest in the problems of Greece. When we visited Melbourne a few years ago, someone mentioned to us that Melbourne was the city with the third largest Greek-speaking population in the world (Wikipedia bears this out; the other two cities are Athens and Thessaloniki).
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