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Top Job Type openings Permanent 35.26% of offers
Top Employer Flinders and Upper North Local Health Network 267 offers
Top Job Title in demand Occupational Therapist 14 offers
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Port Augusta is the fifth most populous city in South Australia after Adelaide, Mount Gambier, Whyalla and Murray Bridge. It is a seaport and railway junction city located on the east coast of the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia and is located at the head of the Spencer Gulf, 322 km north of the state capital. Other major industries include electricity generation.It is a natural harbour which was settled on 24 May 1852 by Alexander Elder and John Grainger. The port was named after Augusta Sophia, Lady Young, the wife of the Governor of South Australia, Sir Henry Edward Fox Young. Provided by Wikipedia More Info

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Electricity generationElectricity is generated at the Playford B (240 MW) and Northern power stations (520 MW) from brown coal mined at Leigh Creek, 250 km to the north. The only coal-fired electricity generating plants in South Australia, in 2009 they produced 33% of the state's electricity, but over 50% of the state's CO2 emissions from electricity generation.TourismPort Augusta has been ab... More Info

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There are six public primary schools:Augusta Park Primary School, More Info

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