We increased our staff by 8 percent in November and will probably do the same in December as we try to meet this demand. We will continue to increase staff into 2006.
The expansion in mining has to have an impact on the wider Australian economy -- it's creating jobs and extra investment, so that's a great stimulus. We will continue to increase staff this year. China demand has driven our business.
It required us to put on more workers.
We are expanding to eight million tons next year from six million this year to meet demand, which just keeps getting stronger and stronger as China manufactures more.
There are huge expansions going on in Western Australia and the employment pages are groaning with ads from companies like ours. Miners are helping out as the jobs market softens a bit elsewhere.
Demand has been very strong and China is a big factor. We are in the process of expanding right now to meet that demand.
The economy seems very healthy and there is a significant demand for workers.
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