Brains draining in this direction Katharine Murphy January 17, 2006
FORGET the myth of the "brain drain". Thousands of young people might be leaving Australia for high-paid jobs overseas, but we are actually enjoying a "net brain gain".
The Productivity Commission estimates that 120,000 educated Australians are working in OECD countries, but this is offset by more than 1.5 million overseas-born educated people living in Australia.
