Australia wants you: Recruiters sent overseas to sign up 5,000 best and brightest

The government is deploying officers to key locations overseas in a bid to recruit 5,000 people at the top of their fields.

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The government is deploying recruitment officers overseas to bring thousands of the best and brightest workers to Australia.

Immigration Minister David Coleman has revealed one officer is in place in Berlin, Germany, with more to be sent next month to the United States, Singapore, Santiago, Shanghai and Dubai.

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