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Australian Prime Minister: Get used to offshoring

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31 Oct 2006 | (News)

Amid the outcry over Australian businesses outsourcing processing of sensitive customer information, Prime Minister John Howard said offshoring has to be accepted as part of the globalized world.

"Just as this country wants the advantages of globalization, so it should be that it must accept that part of the globalized world is a much freer flow of information," Howard said in Parliament

Meanwhile, leading Australian Bank Westpac said it is contemplating moving 300 jobs to India. Westpac spokesman David Lording said a media report had inaccurately suggested that Westpac was planning to move 500 call center jobs to the technology hub of Bangalore.

"We have no call centers in India and we have no plans to move call centers offshore," Lording said adding Westpac may move 300 positions from its personal loans division to India. He said the bank was reviewing a "number of issues."

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