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Blacksmiths added to Australian Apprenticeships Priority List as trade remains in hot demand amid dwindling numbers

Matt Mewburn runs a blacksmith business on the site of some century-old Sydney workshops. (ABC Radio Sydney: Declan Bowring)

People tell Matt Mewburn he doesn't look like a blacksmith.

He stands at six-foot-two, produces a polite smile and is clean shaven – far from the medieval blacksmith stereotype of having a big beard, long hair and a furrowed brow.

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