As the Federal Government shapes a budget blueprint to deal with the recession, it's got its eye on luring big foreign companies to our shores. It set up a taskforce with the goal of attracting advanced manufacturing, financial services, and health companies to call Australia home and create jobs. The Acting Immigration Minister is Alan Tudge, and the ABC radio stations have spoken earlier.

Below is the transcript from this interview:

TUDGE-Transcript----ABC-Global-business-and-talent-attraction-taskforce.pdf

and TUDGE-ABC-News-Michael-Rowland-and-Lisa-Millar.pdf

and

Tudge-Press-Conference-Canberra.pdf

Business-Council-of-Australia-press-release.pdf