people being brought in on temporary visa, principally from China, Indonesia & the Phillipines (I wonder why) Call a spade a spade they are here for cheap labor for these greedy mining cartels & Barons. If there are not enough skilled workers, this is a direct result of the Howard era, becaused the No-alition cancelled the apprentice avenue and remoulded them to trainee-ships & we are paying for it now. There is no substitute for properly accredited tradesmen & women, another great stuff-up by the Fiberals. This is a dangerous precident allowing temporary foreign workers on mining projects & is designed to weaken the unions even further. I guess some pollies wont be happy till everyone is on minimum wage working 12 hour shifts. There will be no end to this debarcle & all Australians will pay the price at the end of the day!! If the government want to slow mining down they can limit the number of permits being granted, States want growth though. If we can slow down mining and have value added industries instead of exporting raw minerals is preferable but very hard to achieve. We have a situation where there is an oversupply of labour in office jobs and an under supply of labour in IT and engineering. If we want to slow mining down there need to be real growth in other sectors. The Australian Government has approved its first Enterprise Migration Agreement (EMA), granted to the new iron ore mining Roy Hill project