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Full-time employment rising was good news for the Australian dollar, which is a key indicator for the RBA's decision on rates.
Labor's federal leadership has attacked Adani's promised employment opportunities as “fake jobs” as Queensland MPs split on the mega coal mine.
The good times are rolling back in for the Queensland coal jobs market.
LABOR'S federal leadership has attacked Adani's promised employment opportunities as “fake jobs” as Queensland MPs yesterday split on the mega coal mine.
Maverick Queensland MP Bob Katter has recruited two disgruntled union members to run against Labor at the federal election, seizing on a rupture over the ...
Prime minister to make jobs and infrastructure promises as high-profile independent prepares to challenge treasurer Josh Frydenberg.
The damage bill from Queensland's summer of floods and fires will top more than $1 billion. Premier Annstacia Palszczuk said early estimates of the cost to ...
A band of friends travel hundreds of kilometres into the epicentre of the flood disaster to do the job no one else wants to do — digging mass graves for thousands ...
Australia's jobless rate remained steady at a seasonally adjusted 5.0 per cent in January, but a jump in full-time employment could reassure the Reserve Bank ...
QUEENSLAND could become a net exporter of renewable energy into the national grid, according to the company behind a new solar farm near Maryborough.
New data has revealed how quickly wages are rising in the public sector versus the private sector.
The Queensland government says it is not to blame if hundreds of stonemasons die from a preventable lung disease, and it is up to employers to look after the ...
The CFMEU has joined forces with big miners to accuse the Palaszczuk Labor government of treating Indian company Adani differently in their approvals for the ...
EXPLORATION geologists, mining engineers and maintenance professionals including fitters, boilermakers and electricians made the list of the top resources ...
Teacher bashing is a national sport in Australia, and it's got to stop. But putting MP Andrew Laming in charge of an inquiry into teachers is akin to putting a fox in ...
FAILED menswear retailer Ed Harry will close its doors for the last time in the coming weeks, leading to the loss of more than 120 jobs across Queensland.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been delivered an important economic boost with new figures showing 64,000 full time jobs created across the country in ...
More than 24000 new jobs will be created in the resources and mining industry over the next decade as Australia rides the wave of global demand.
THE State Government has been accused of failing to meet its own deadline for releasing the controversial review preventing the Carmichael mega coalmine ...
UP TO 250 jobs are still available on two resorts in the Whitsundays Islands within months of their reopening. Daydream and Hayman islands are scheduled to ...
The figures are in, and we now know whether predictions of the economic benefits of the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games were accurate.
THE Gold Coast Commonwealth Games will boost the Queensland economy by almost $2.5 billion, a new report reveals. Preliminary data from analysis by ...
The mining arm of the CFMMEU in Queensland has said it will not automatically endorse Labor candidates.
Metals explorer Australian Mines (ASX: AUZ) will be able to fast-track development of its $1.4 billion Sconi cobalt-nickel-scandium asset in north Queensland ...
Stars of movie and screen have descended on Queensland as filming begins on two major productions on top of a third production well underway. The Premier ...
Australian shares are poised to open higher, ahead of the latest jobs report.
OPPOSITION leader Bill Shorten has cautioned Townsville residents against Adani's "silver bullet solutions". Mr Shorten made the comments during a major ...
The Matildas have received a huge boost after a turbulent month, by securing highly rated ex-Socceroos assistant coach Ante Milicic for their operation France ...
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Jeff Reibel and Michael Luck have officially been appointed as Cowboys executives after five months acting in their roles. The Board of the North Queensland ...
A FORMER call centre operator has launched legal action against car hire company Hertz, claiming years of excessive work have left his elbows in tatters.
The degrees with the biggest growth over the next are not where all the jobs will be.
Following the recent devastating flooding in Townsville, a call to arms was made from Townsville Police that was eagerly answered by a team of officers.
The opposition has taken up the idea of public *service* decentralisation as a vehicle for regional development, but gone further than the government with a ...
It has been years since she had a pay rise and there are no prospects for one any time soon. The 34-year-old Central Queensland resident is an early childhood ...
Woollam Constructions to hold contractor information evening this week.
A growing number of Australians want to ditch conventional employment in favour of doing their own thing and being their own boss. And Mark Bouris, one of the ...
Queensland's most in-demand workers could see their salaries jump by as much as a third this year. SEE WHAT JOBS ARE ABOUT TO BOOM.
AUSTRALIA will need an army of new nurses, health and aged-care workers — as well as thousands of waiters and massage therapists — over the next five ...
IF you want a job in Queensland it appears the sugar cane capital of Mackay is the place to be.
Despite figures showing a coal-export record has been beaten, with 223 million tonnes passing through Queensland ports last year, Greens senator Larissa ...
Queensland is now "outright last and going further backwards" on employment.
NEW analysis shows the areas where jobs are growing in Australia — and one state appears to be dominating the rest.
A renewable energy boom is reinvigorating the Darling Downs local economy but although some landholders are eager to be involved, not all residents are ...
RETAILERS are punting on a Santa rally for the sector with job posts for casual and part time workers on website Indeed more than double that of last year.
THE former nickel mining town of Greenvale is set for revival on the back of a $1.3 billion project to produce nickel and cobalt for the battery market and ...
Zinc production is set to increase in Australia with a multi-million investment to expand a refinery in north Queensland.
GEOPHYSICISTS, engineers, nurses and public servants are just some of the professions that have experienced the biggest salary drops in the space of a year, ...
Australia's hydrogen export industry would be opened up under an audacious $1 billion Labor plan intended to revive the fortunes of central Queensland.
A SHOCK Bill to ban coalmining in Queensland — killing off 20000 new jobs — will be used as rallying cry to lure voters back to the LNP and turn pressure back ...
MORE than 350 workers will be hired at a new coal mine in Central Queensland in the latest sign of a resurgence in the states resources sector.
Despite the Queensland Government promising a jobs boom from the construction of dozens of solar projects across the state, an industry insider says ...
Companies bidding for government projects worth more than $10m will be required to look for local workers first under Labor.
HOW would you like a job travelling around, chin wagging with residents in the Somerset region? That's the opportunity Somerset Regional Council has on offer ...
JOB hunters are in luck with a number of local Red Rooster restaurants recruiting for a range of positions in the lead up to Christmas. Red Rooster Queensland ...
Just months after acquiring Hail Creek in Queensland's Bowen Basin, resources company Glencore announces it intends to cut 430 jobs at the mine.
More than one in five Queensland public sector workers were casuals, temporary workers or on contracts, according to the latest figures. There were 226,469 ...
POLICE staffing is at critical levels and 1650 extra officers are needed immediately as jobs take up to eight hours to attend, Queenslands Police Union ...
Devastated workers have lost their jobs and a building site has been abandoned after a major central Queensland building company went into administration.
Costco is less than three months away from opening a second Queensland store at Bundamba and already managers are looking for staff to fill some of 280 ...
UniQuest, the commercialisation company of The University of Queensland, is today celebrating the creation of more than 100 startups. UQ Vice-Chancellor and ...
FIFTY new mining production jobs are available at a gold mine near Mount Isa.
The $6.7 billion China Stone thermal coal mine, planned to sit alongside Adani's proposed operation, is a step closer after gaining approval from Queensland's ...
Queensland is facing a hospitality staffing crisis, with proposed Brisbane tourism developments set to create 9000 extra jobs in two years. Experts say working in ...
When Sandy Mackenzie went bush to return to his roots, he knew it was a world away from the life he had made for himself in Brisbane — and he was fine with ...
ABOUT 350 new jobs will be created in Central Queensland following the State Government giving the green light to a new Bowen Basin mining project.
A THIRD of all new jobs created in Queensland during the June quarter were funded by taxpayers after the Palaszczuk Government continued its public *service* ...
The Queensland resources minister has been accused of using exaggerated job numbers circulated by the mining lobby when announcing the state would sell ...
Queensland has recorded its highest jobs growth in the country for the 12 months to March but still languishes compared with other states' unemployment rates.
Queensland's job growth is the fastest in the nation, and population growth is on a high, the latest State of the States report says. CommSec assessed each state ...
QUEENSLANDS booming economy came to a shuddering halt in the June quarter, producing the worst growth of all the states and raising concerns about job ...
A SHORTAGE of Sydney tradies could open the window for Brisbane tradesmen and women to seek work down south at least in the short term.
ABOUT 1400 jobs are up for grabs in the Queensland mining sector as confidence returns and strong coal prices create boom-like conditions. The Queensland ...
The Indian mining giant has announced it will self-finance the controversial mine in Queensland's Galilee Basin.
They quite literally hold the lives of thousands of Queenslanders in their hands, so it is perhaps no surprise to see surgeons top the list of the most paid ...
THE State Opposition has slammed the Government over a 10 million jobs for the girls move to hand a top role to a union chief.
The Sunshine State is strengthening as a leader in the defence industry, with Queensland companies winning contracts to deliver more heavy vehicles and ...
QUEENSLANDS own Silicon Coast is a step closer, with the latest contract signed for the submarine broadband cable tipped to transform the Sunshine Coast ...
Queensland's jobless rate is the equal worst in the nation, official figures reveal. The unemployment rate in April rose to 6.5 per cent, up from 6.1 per cent, ...
According to Rheinmetall careers, about 140 jobs on the Land 400 project have been released, mostly based in Hamburg. They include welders, electronics ...
Queensland is teeming with hundreds of jobs in the resources sector, from Townsville and Mt Isa in the north, to Toowoomba and Roma in the south and in ...
Labor needs Queensland, the Opposition Leader says, launching his nine-day bus tour of the state.
Ipswich City Council this morning announced it would soon start the recruitment process for the role. Mr Madigan will not leave the organisation, with the council ...
A guard fired from Queensland's largest prison for falling asleep on the job multiple times and carrying out unauthorised strip searches of prisoners has failed in ...
SPRINGFIELD is in the running to become the centre of technological development in relation to electric cars bringing new jobs with it.
QUEENSLANDS regional universities are outperforming some of the big names in the states capital in landing new graduates jobs and getting better pay, ...
Almost 550 jobs at Telstra's two call centres in Queensland are "in the firing line" according to the Community and Public Sector Union, after the company ...
TELSTRA has been slammed as "heartless" after cutting more than a dozen jobs across North Queensland just weeks before Christmas. Four full time positions ...
Australia's ageing population and the need for 12000 NDIS jobs in Queensland is shown in the demand for health courses by 2019 Queensland university ...
After years in the economic slow lane, Queensland is starting to surge with solid jobs growth and strong interstate migration driven by Sydney and Melbourne's ...
ALMOST 300 skilled workers are still needed to fill positions at the Costco warehouse before it opens in November. The US company is known to offer some ...
DESPERATE farmers fear the Queensland Government will gut a country town in the states fruit bowl and kill off hundreds of jobs for the sake of power profits.
Fitzroy Australia Resources' Ironbark No. 1 coal mine has received approval from the QLD State Government in a move that will bring 350 local jobs.
Workers strike for a second day on the $1 billion Jewel resort development in Surfers Paradise, with the CFMEU saying the situation is unprecedented and it ...
ATTRACTING new apprentices and skilled employees to the workforce is vital if the booming manufacturing industry in Ipswich is to sustain itself, new research ...
GLOBAL resources giant Glencore will sack hundreds of Hail Creek mine workers in what it has dubbed a restructure of its operations.
The Inland Rail has been a long time coming for the Darling Downs region but now that the project is a reality, businesses need to be ready to make the most of ...
The University of Queensland has climbed another place in the 2019 QS Graduate Employability Rankings, to be number 48 in the world. The result places UQ ...
Who ranked from 40 to 31 in the list of Ipswich's Most Influential people for 2018?
Shell's QGC onshore gas venture in Queensland has announced a significant expansion that will secure up to 350 jobs over the next two years. Project ...