Australia opens door to more skilled workers

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.