New figures from the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations also show there has been an exodus from NSW and the ACT, with 369 people leaving under the program, which gives them up to $9000 to relocate.
The new figures reveal that only 53 people have moved to Western Australia, despite it being the state most desperate for workers, with the lion's share moving to the sunshine state of Queensland, with 299 new people entering the state to work.
you add this with the 457 visa carryon, and you have an overheated economy, in one very specific part of the country.
I know after the christchurch earthquake, the kiwi government offered $ 500 dollars to relocate people to help reconstruct the city, " a one off event ".
So in closing, yeah mining may very well be all over Australia , but the " heat in terms of employment availability " ,or as the case may well have been unavailability was in the state of WA, the land of the cashed up bogan.
Not only had iron ore gone through the roof price wise, you had twiggys new iron ore mine,as well as gina's, plus the expansions at both bhp and rio mines,but oil & gas was on fire as well, gorgon ,wheatstone ,ithcys,to name just three of them,even though the latter was out of the NT, let alone cols failed James price point misadventure in relation to the Browse basin development.
The sun sets on the Western Australian economy
When Barnett came to office in 2008, net debt sat at $3.6 billion. Now it sits at $27 billion and is forecast to reach $40 billion by 2019. The state has sunk to a record $2 billion deficit.
At its peak, the Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows WA was sucking in nearly 1000 people a month from the eastern seaboard, or 11,400 in 2011-12.
