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Mature-age trainees help plug nationwide skills shortage, but ageism still rife

It seems right around the country and across industries, the cries are the same – there's not enough workers.

With the country's unemployment rate hovering at historic lows, the booming jobs market is enticing older Australians to retrain, in the hope of increasing their employability.

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