Hyderabad: In 2012, India topped the list of nations with skilled employees ‘Down Under’, said Lachlan Strahan, acting Australian High Commissioner.
With 30,000 migrants, Indians constituted a fifth of all the migrants to Australia last year, he said at a press conference, adding, “We are looking at skilled employees from a wide range of professionals as well as business people.”
In Hyderabad as part of the Oz Festival events during the weekend, Strahan said tourism between the two countries was growing along with bilateral trade. While 190,000 Australians travelled to India last year, about 160,000 Indians visited Australia. In answer to a question, he said there were a total of 4.3 lakh Indians in Australia.
The Oz Festival, which was launched on October 16, 2012, with a glittering show in Delhi’s Purana Qila, has run over a hundred events in 18 locations in an effort to go beyond ‘Cricket, Commonwealth and English (common language)’ and create more bridges between the two nations, said David Holly, Consul General for South India. The festival, the largest cultural event held in India, ends with a concert on Wednesday in New Delhi.
The two-way trade touched $20 billion last year, with India’s contribution being $11 billion. The expectations are that it will double in the next five years. Australia came up with a White Paper in 2012, which puts India as one of the top five countries for trade and relations.
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