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IT'S BIG DOWN UNDER...
21st July 2005, Page 60
21st July 2005
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In case your dream is to drive a Kenworth roadtrain across the Aussie outback, here are a few facts and figures...
• Transport accounts for 425,000 jobs in Australia; about 5% of the total • There are an average of 8.7 fatalities per 100,000 people —compared with a UK figure of 6.0 per 100,000 • More than 150,000 jobs for skilled workers are advertised in Australia every week
• The Transport Workers of Australia was set up more than 100 years ago and currerAt has 82,000 members. It is affiliated to the industry body the Australian Trucking Association
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