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Tasmania's tentative return to jobs growth continued in May, but weakness in female and full-time employment persisted. The state gained 200 jobs for the ...
The number of jobs advertised online dipped 0.7 per cent in May, marking a fifth consecutive month of falls recorded by the federal government's Internet ...
Multi-million dollar wind farms are springing to life in Tasmania, and there are billions of dollars more in the pipeline. How will that affect the power security of the ...
Young health professional Manning Mitchell is the type of resident Launceston is desperate to attract, and he loves the perks of life in a regional town. But while ...
We are backing rural and regional Tasmania by investing $100 million in the 2019-20 Budget to fund a range of initiatives that will help grow the annual farm ...
Guy Barnett,Minister for Energy The Hodgman Liberal Government is on track to achieve our bold vision to unlock Tasmania's potential as the renewable...
Apple Wang has an accounting degree from an Australian university, but in Hobart, the only job she could get was driving for Uber. Experts say it's cases like this ...
The State Government is a great supporter of Tasmania's agriculture sector, recognising its role in building a stronger economy and creating thousands of jobs.
In your Letters to the Editor today: Fly-in-fly-out workers, call to keep Oakdale Lodge and homelessness.
It is anticipated there will be 50 job losses in Tasmania as the company embarks on a major business restructure.
Australia's unemployment rate remained steady at a seasonally adjusted 5.2 per cent in May, but underemployment has risen because of a jobs surge ...
Regional TV staff across NSW and Southern Qld have been left frustrated and disappointed after learning they will soon lose their jobs, with confirmation WINTV ...
Forecasts made by state and territory treasuries reveal none are as optimistic about wages, inflation or jobs growth as the federal government.
The Australian Local Government Association released its 2019 State of the Regions report on Sunday.
MORNING BRIEFING: New data reveals the animals most at risk of being hit or killed on Tasmanian roads, a former physician at Royal Hobart Hospital unloads ...
There's nothing new in conservationists needing to win over working people. The Adani campaign can learn from the proposed Franklin Dam.
TREASURER Peter Gutwein told Mona founder David Walsh he was pleased to back the museums request for a Federal Government grant to help build a hotel ...
Employment company SEEK has revealed that the mining, resources and energy sector was the third-strongest contributor to the Australian employment market ...
The policy aims to increase Tasmania's population to 650000 by 2050.
St Marys on Tasmania's north-east coast has attracted tree changers looking for the real Australia away from the bustling capital cities, and many residents ...
One of Australia's most respected businessmen is calling on the McGowan Government to slash payroll tax, saying it needs to be cheaper to employ workers.
MORNING BRIEFING: A Tasmanian golfer who held the world record as the youngest to ever score a hole-in-one has died — and Tasmania's Aboriginal ...
Australia's unemployment rate remains stuck at 5.2 per cent, despite the creation of 42300 jobs in May, as a record number of people look for work.
Tasmania might be sailing a wave of economic prosperity, but the state's workforce is missing the soft skills needed for the future of work, a new Deloitte report ...
Police union says computer system records number of ambulance jobs police sent to.
Australia's sprawling outer suburbs have rapidly growing populations, but most of the new residents have a very long commute to get to jobs that are mainly ...
The state budget has been slammed for ignoring the needs of many Tasmanians doing it tough. Tasmanian Council of Social *Service* chief executive Kym ...
Senator Lisa Singh says fourth place on the Labor ticket was a bridge too far to cross, and wants Labor to get rid of any intimidatory preselection processes.
The 2019 state budget has the potential to do to Will Hodgman and Peter Gutwein what the 2014 federal budget did for Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey. Its that bad.
Peter Richards voted for Labor for 40 years, but the 66-year-old Ravenswood resident gave the Liberals his first preference in last week's federal election.
Employment rose for the 12th straight month, up by 42,300 in May after a revised 43,100 increase in jobs in April (previously reported as a 28,400 increase in ...
Recruiter talks of key skills gaps in Tasmanian health care, hospitality.
Telstra has decided to shut its store in Launceston's Brisbane Street Mall, resulting in the loss of 14 jobs. The company reached this decision after some time of ...
BUDGET ANALYSIS: Tasmania's economic thermometers.
According to the Tasmanian government's budget papers, the creative industries contributed $66 million to the state's economy in the past financial year.
Tasmania's private investment boom is continuing to strengthen. Private new capital investment in the March quarter totalled $367 million in real trend terms, the ...
An decision to sell their business, buy a yacht and hit the open seas led a French couple to take their family (pictured) on an around the world trip that continued ...
MORE Tasmanians are accessing welfare, battling underemployment and waiting on the housing register today than when the Hodgman Government came to ...
Shane Broad has grilled the Treasurer about the lack of detail about the proposed tax.
Australia's unemployment rate, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), currently sits at 5.2%. It was also as low as 4.9% in February, at the time ...
Merri Sims has been looking for a job since July. She's finished year 12 and completed vocational courses, but says it's hard to find a job without experience.
News Corp is slashing dozens of editorial jobs across the country, with nearly a third of the cuts coming from Victoria. The company has already identified th...
OUR state is in a well-publicised state of flux. The economy is booming, currently in third place behind Victoria and NSW. Population growth is 100 per cent ...
In St Helens, a tourist hotspot on Tasmania's east coast, locals say job opportunities for young people are limited, and they're losing out to bigger cities.
The figures were released in a quarterly update by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research.
Justine Keay gives Liberals a whack over full-time job losses.
Anthony Albanese has declared his love for Tasmania as he begins a three-year Labor mission to win back the state's swinging north. The opposition leader ...
Hi Oscar is an alternative to Uber and other ride-share apps.
The police union has pushed for the SOG to be reestablish as a full-time squad.
The future of around 300 jobs at a Tasmanian smelter is unclear due to what the company describes as changes in market dynamics, as the Romanian-built ...
The Australian Services Union has warned the government not to introduce rate pegging as part of its review of the local government sector, arguing councils ...
The funds will be used to help local businesses win more defence industry contracts.
Our “state of the states” series takes stock of the key issues, seats and policies affecting the vote in each of Australia's states. We'll check in with our expert ...
As Tasmania deals with increasing demands on the health system, unions say it is impossible to get positions filled — but the Government denies there is a ...
Australian basketball great Chris Anstey believes Tasmania has an NBL future.
The region needs to be looking at how we turn around population decline, and soon.
JOBS FOCUS: Braddon Liberals candidate Gavin Pearce, seen here with Prime Minister Scott Morrison (left) and Senator Richard Colbeck, says unemployment ...
Mental health workers will be placed at every state primary and high school in Tasmania under a state Labor opposition plan. Unveiling the party's alternative...
Federal Labor has pledged to drive the creation of up to 70,000 renewable energy jobs by 2030 with the rollout of a $75 million Renewables Training Package, ...
Tasmania's farmers say economic activity, including jobs, had been lost to the mainland as the number of abattoirs on the island consolidates.
Tasmanian renewable energy jobs have surged by 10.6 per cent in a year, with wind energy jobs more than doubling. The growth came before several of the big ...
Hobart-registered nursing graduate Tracy Barton is due to start her dream job in one week's time — a graduate position with Tasmania's Health *Service*.
Tourism is booming in Tasmania, and with tree changes all the rage, it's no surprise visitors to Australia's island state are pondering a move to the Apple Isle.
An online petition has been launched calling for nine cleaners to have their jobs reinstated, following a contract change at the University of Tasmania.
There are concerns for 300 jobs and the broader economy of northern Tasmania, with news a manganese alloy smelter, in the marginal seat of Bass, will be sold ...
TASMANIAN job ad growth is outperforming mainland Australia, with a 26.8 per cent annual increase in job listings on SEEK.
TASMANIA is touted as the ideal place to live, work, study and invest.
Tasmania's North is continuing its jobs boom, while the North-West has returned to jobs growth. Launceston and the North-East averaged 68,600 jobs per month ...
Online job ads are in a steep decline, with construction-related sectors posting the biggest fall in vacancies, and when job ads decrease unemployment usually ...
Devonport abattoir workers say they are devastated by news that more than 100 jobs could be lost after the abattoir announced plans to close by mid-November.
Tasmanian Quality Meats wants to double its capacity.
Chocolate-maker Cadbury's decision to shed 40 jobs from its Tasmanian factory, replacing workers with machines, is met with anger, disappointment and ...
Frustration is growing among job seekers who say they don't receive any notification they've missed out on a job, but one company in Adelaide has tried ...
The number of Australians falling behind on their mortgage repayments is at its worst since the Global Financial Crisis, the Reserve Bank says. RBA head of ...
Nearly 30 staff at Hobart hotel which has been sold off for university accommodation will lose their jobs, but the operator says the company held off telling ...
Jake Hartshorn has just qualified in a job making plastic products in the Tasmanian electorate of Franklin where youth unemployment is high. The business is ...
A deal is struck for Tasmanian Quality Meats to take over pork processing at the Devonport abattoir in the state's north-west, but just 18 people out of the facility's ...
QANTAS will shrink its Hobart call centre by about one-third as customers shift to online forms of contact. Around 60 jobs will go from the 200-seat call centre at ...
Young Australians are twice as likely to be unemployed, and they're battling the trends of casualisation and the loss of manufacturing jobs. It's hardest in ...
A nickel mining project in Tasmania's west that promised to breathe new life into the Zeehan area and create hundreds of new jobs stalls, with the owners ...
Tasmania's population growth is a "runaway train", with health services and roads struggling to cope with increasing demand, planning expert Irene Duckett says ...
This month one group of paramedics spent 10 hours of their shift waiting with patients at the Royal Hobart Hospital. They say it's symptomatic of a system ready ...
Pharmacists, like doctors, are finding it hard to attract qualified staff — just ask Terry Travers, who forked out thousands of dollars for a locum when he fell ill.
Tasmania Fire *Service* will recruit 24 career firefighters in 2019.
In a state with high levels of illiteracy one Tasmanian program is helping people like Dylan Wagner turn that around - so much so, he is now running his own ...
Labor leader Bill Shorten is continuing to focus his campaign on renewable energy, with a promise to put $7...
SKILLED job vacancies in Hobart have hit a four-year high with record hiring for health and welfare workers.
Jobs in hospitality and retail are among the occupations in Tasmania most vulnerable to automation, according to a new report into the future of jobs in regional ...
A St Helens job recruitment consultant says employment services need to be run by the government rather than for profit after a Senate Inquiry found Jobactive ...
Liberal Lyons MHA John Tucker says he wants a greater focus on job opportunities for regional Tasmania.
The funding would cover the existing gap in training costs.
Secure work in mining and manufacturing is front of mind for voters in Tasmania's battleground seat of Braddon, which is held by Labor's Justine Keay with a 1.7 ...
There are concerns for 300 jobs and the broader economy of northern Tasmania, with news a manganese alloy smelter in the marginal seat of Bass will be sold, ...
The number of jobs vacant at Ambulance Tasmania was not readily available.
It remains unclear when or if all three Burnie Port projects a mining hopeful says can transform the Tasmanian economy will get federal funding. With Saturday's ...
Tasmania is Australia's turnaround state. Through the combined efforts of your federal and state Liberal governments, we are creating jobs, strengthening the ...
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is back in Tasmania to energise his Battery of the Nation vision with funds to train the workers needed to build it.
ABOUT one in every 10 Commonwealth public sector jobs based in Tasmania has disappeared over the past four years. Public sector jobs figures reveal nearly ...
THE Coalition has tried to woo Tasmanian voters with promises of jobs and roads — but there was little clarity on when infrastructure funding would flow and no ...
Paramedics write a scathing letter to Ambulance Tasmania, warning the unmitigated crisis at the Royal Hobart Hospital is causing them widespread and ...