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Business and welfare groups say they fear tax increases and *service* cuts while unions are worried about job security for public servants as the Andrews Labor ...
Fonterra has ruled-out closing other dairy processing sites in Australia after falling milk supply forced the New Zealand company to close its factory at ...
The last Ford Falcon rolled off the production line in Broadmeadows back in October 2016, signalling the end of an era in Australian car manufacturing and the ...
Victoria's new prison at Lara will be the state's largest maximum security lock-up, housing nearly 1250 inmates, when it is finished in three years, the State ...
A brutal fight is expected on the conference floor over the party's presidency, with a veteran party figure eyeing the top job currently held by Robert Clark.
More than $40 million will be spent on programs to curb Victoria's soaring prison population, including women and Aboriginal prisoners, by helping them find ...
Metro Trains is currently looking to hire the next generation of train drivers to deal with the expansion of Melbourne's train network, with a focus on attracting ...
The number of academics and professional staff at our universities who are in insecure work continues to skyrocket, according to new figures revealed...
When Shan Windscript starting teaching history at Melbourne University five years ago, she didn't imagine she would be paid 'starvation wages'.
Newly-elected Labor MP Libby Coker says ensuring the Government delivers on their expensive election commitments in Corangamite — even though they lost ...
GEELONGS Diversitat is heading up a new partnership helping build pathways to jobs and growing communities across regional Victoria.
Victorias top cop has defended police who broke an innocent mans arm in several places during a botched police raid at an apartment above an LGBT ...
Victoria's population boom, with nearly 85000 migrants settling here in a year, is keeping the economy out of trouble as the property market continues to slow.
What does Victoria need to build to help fix the state's recyclable waste crisis? That's the question being asked of the state's infrastructure agency, after...
A worker is trapped inside a large forklift which has toppled in Melbourne's west, with a specialist high-angle rescue underway.
Fonterra has decided to close its Dennington factory in Australia later this year.
Three months on from his release from a Thailand detention centre, Australian refugee and footballer Hakeem Al-Araibi has accepted a job with Football Victoria ...
Australia's retail market of late has been going through unique structural changes largely driven by the way consumers shop through omnichannel spending, ...
How a competition helped a public servant quit her job to follow her true calling.
The Victorian government's somewhat confusing new public sector wages policy, which came into effect last Wednesday, has met an angry response from the ...
A B.C. business is taking a different approach to its employment model. CleanStart BC is a junk and pest removal company that aims to hire people with barriers ...
Director to lead the organisation into an exciting period of development.
Victoria and NSW again share top spot on the CommSec State of the States report thanks to strong population...
A PROGRAM helping jobseekers in one of Geelongs most disadvantaged areas is facing a funding cut.
COUNTRY business are rolling out the welcome mat for new workers to fill thousands of job vacancies in regional and rural Victoria.
Victoria's booming trade relationship with China has exceeded target expectations as Premier Daniel Andrews makes his fifth trip to the Asian nation in as man...
There's been an unlikely resurgence in manufacturing jobs in Victoria, with more people now employed in the sector than before the shutdown of the automotive ...
About 500 jobs are set to be created in the Latrobe Valley, with the Victorian Government announcing a deal to bring the manufacturing of electric vehicles to the ...
Health district responsible for hospital that employs Dr Christopher Kwan Chen Lee says it takes 'professional misconduct' seriously.
More than 100 workers will lose their jobs at Ford in Victoria as the automaker further consolidates its operations.
Today, HS2 Ltd has confirmed that work on Britain's new high speed railway is supporting 9000 jobs around the country.
Timber workers and businesses are sweating on their future, with the Victorian Government delaying the release of plans for industry to access native timber ...
The Shahin family-owned fuel empire will expand further into Victoria with three new On The Run stores to open this year, part of a 40 million-plus spend that will ...
Green Energy Markets predicts more than 6000 annual jobs will be created but urges federal policy intervention.
Victoria's jobs growth is soaring as 10,000 jobs were created in March alone, with manufacturing dominating many roles in the state. The Australian Bureau of ...
Victorian schools are facing a critical shortage of principals, with one third of state school heads set to reach retirement age in the next five years. Some schools ...
As well as saving Victorian households a bundle of cash on going solar, the state's Solar Homes Package rebate is giving local employment a boost too.
Strong jobs market gives Morrison government good story to tell going to the polls.
A third of Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) staff are expected to be employed in regional communities, Agriculture and Water Minister David Littleproud ...
Australians have so far enjoyed good news on the energy front to kick off the new year. Country-wide, the Federal Government announced a win for families The ...
Teachers describe their job as challenging, creative and like being a doctor with less blood, so as Victoria frantically tries to cater for thousands of extra students, ...
The massive suburban loop project at the centre of the Andrews government's successful election campaign will fail to achieve a key aim of connecting workers ...
EXCLUSIVE: A MULTI-BILLION dollar switch in government banking to regional Victoria has been pledged by the Coalition ahead of the weekends state ...
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Office of the Victorian Government Architect (OVGA) and foster innovation in Victoria's housing to be better designed, ...
Another 25700 new jobs, mainly full-time, was not enough to stop the unemployment rate rising as more people looked for work.
Victoria's burgeoning medicinal cannabis industry will involve a new cultivation and manufacturing facility being built in Shepparton.
Centrelink and Medicare workforces in areas of high demand would be beefed up in a bid to reduce waiting times, under a federal Labor plan. About 160 ...
The idea of one single city centre is being challenged in Melbourne, where the population has surged beyond 5 million people. There are now plans for another ...
COUNTRY Victorians have had their say — jobs, roads and public transport are the issues most important to them.
Employment surged in October as the central bank's record-low interest rates spurred hiring, while the jobless rate remained at a six-year low despite an ...
The federal budget and election will be fought against the backdrop of a deteriorating economy with one of the nation's pre-eminent economists predicting the ...
EXCLUSIVE: A SECRET Andrews Government plan to ban logging in Victorian native forests next decade could wipe out thousands of jobs across the state.
If climate change is the great moral issue of our time, as one former prime minister famously said, then governments have failed miserably”, Victorian Socialists ...
More than 150 jobs in Bendigo are at risk after a company contracted to build engines for Australia's new generation of armoured vehicles went bust. The $1.5 ...
Victoria's jobs growth continues, with 10000 jobs created in March alone, and the State's unemployment rate dropping to 4.6 per cent. Australian Bureau...
A drop in the number of children living in Victoria's Latrobe Valley has been blamed on the privatisation of the state's power industry in the 1990s.
A world-first pilot project which will turn brown coal from Victoria's Latrobe Valley into hydrogen has been approved by the Environmental Protection Authority ...
Victoria is the only state in the country not to downgrade its growth forecasts, with gross state product expected to rise 3 per cent this financial year.
Hundreds of Victorian veterans will be recruited to the public *service* as part of push to help them land civilian jobs.
ONE of Premier Daniel Andrews first acts upon re-election has been to carve up Victorias mega Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and ...
THE VICTORIAN STATE GOVERNMENT'S order of 100 Scania city bus chassis as part of the Transdev Melbourne fleet upgrade is creating up to 20 new jobs in ...
The Victorian Government has announced funding for not-for-profit Fitted for Work, to help transgender job seekers overcome barriers to employment.
A proposed energy-from-waste plant which could divert 650000 tonnes of rubbish from landfill each year appears set to go ahead.
The Latrobe Valley community is optimistic two years after the Hazelwood power station closed, but coal continues to dominate the debate.
I recently moved out to regional Victoria with my wife and child. We wanted to flee the rat race and get a house that didn't cost an arm and a leg and a kidney (in ...
Tasmania's farmers say economic activity, including jobs, had been lost to the mainland as the number of abattoirs on the island consolidates.
The Victorian government has agreed to provide a loan of up to $20 million to support Geelong manufacturer Carbon Revolution.
Martin Pakula, new minister for jobs innovation and trade, was the first to admit he has large shoes to fill.
Two Canadian companies have announced plans to invest in Victoria's medicinal cannabis industry, further boosting the state's plan to become the “medicinal ...
Advocates hope Victorian foster children will no longer face the threat of homelessness once they turn 18, with the state government extending state care to 21 ...
Victoria's chief coroner Sara Hinchey could lose her job if an allegation she took alcohol belonging to the Coroner's Court is proven, the judicial watchdog finds.
The leaders of Victoria's two major parties hit the hustings on the first day of the state election campaign, with Premier Daniel Andrews heading north-east and ...
Victoria's ICT workforce is expected to grow by 2.5% by 2023, creating 30000 new jobs.
Wind power is creating new manufacturing jobs in Geelong, Victoria, with wind turbine components set to be assembled at the former Ford Motor manufacturing ...
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews joined more than 100,000 marchers in Melbourne's CBD today as a mass union rally demanded a change in government and ...
ALDI is on the hunt for 10 new area managers to run its Victorian stores for a starting salary of $101,800. The role, which comes with a company car, iPhone and ...
In a Fair Work submission, ALP argues economy will benefit because 'low wages growth threatens consumer demand'
When its major employer shut down two years ago, the naysayers predicted the end for this town. But it\\\'s proved them wrong, and by some way.
A small rural town in north-east Victoria turns to social enterprises to create new jobs and stop locals from having to leave town in search of employment ...
A re-elected Andrews Labor Government will create up to 50 new jobs in the Latrobe Valley with a new government agency, Solar Victoria, to be based in ...
Jobs in large-scale solar farms tripled last financial year, overtaking the hydro sector for the first time, and helping to drive an overall expansion of employment in ...
A growing labour shortage in Victoria's west has the potential to threaten hundreds of millions of dollars of new investment in the region, a municipal executive ...
Global e-commerce giant Amazon will create 500 permanent jobs in its Australian fulfilment centres following criticism about the insecure casual employment of ...
While residents of Greater Victoria are among the most credit-worthy Canadians, they also have seen their obligations rise, according to figures from Canada ...
The engineering and infrastructure firm contracted to work on some of Melbourne's biggest transport infrastructure projects has gone into administration.
ACS, the professional association for Australia's ICT sector, launched its 2018 ACS Australia's Digital Pulse report in Melbourne. The report highlights that ...
Victoria's former centre for car manufacturing, Geelong, will host a turbine assembly and testing hub for global wind giant Vestas.
Businesses seeking to grow or relocate in regional Victoria would benefit from a $1 billion decentralisation fund, the Coalition says.
Victoria's Andrews government is facing a serious political challenge from the state's militant construction union, which is preparing to sue Victoria Police for ...
Regions in NSW, Victoria and Queensland have the highest rates of youth unemployment in the country, peaking at more than five times Australia's overall ...
Aaron Farrugia no longer works at the popular vegan restaurant Smith and Daughters in the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, after a recent roster change left ...
Premier Daniel Andrews says he will offer Fiona Patten a job after her likely toppling in Saturday's election, describing her looming defeat as a 'loss to the ...
POWELLTOWN Sawmills 35 workers and their families want the Victorian Government to end the uncertainty on their future access to the states forest.
Planes spread out across the sky, nearly wingtip to wingtip. A sniper's bullet whizzing by the ear. Squeezing a dying soldier's hand, so he knew he was not alone ...
Workers from Chemist Warehouse in two states have gone on an indefinite strike over what they claim is a widespread culture of sexual harassment and labour ...
The Victorian government has named senior public servant Luke Wilson as the state's first ever cross border commissioner. He'll work to resolve some of the red ...
VicRoads and Public Transport Victoria will be merged into one mega-agency within the Department of Transport from July 1.
Councils respond after authorities ban one of state's largest refuse companies from accepting waste at two sites, citing a fire risk.
A new national park in Victoria's central highlands — home of the state's animal emblem, the leadbeater's possum — will not be created if the Coalition win ...
SHEPPARTON is the only seat in Victoria that was won by an independent MP at the 2014 state election.