A new WA mine is hoping a family-friendly roster will entice hundreds of workers to a new fly in, fly out mine in the Goldfields.

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An Uber driver earlier this week said that he could feel the economy getting stronger. People were happier, he said, were more often using his services to go ...

A teaching job in remote and regional Western Australia can be daunting given the small classrooms of mixed-age students and living in tiny towns, where every ...

Rio Tinto has given the green light for a $3.5 billion investment in its new Koodaideri iron ore mine, replacing depleted capacity elsewhere and creating 600 ...

Lifting a state-wide moratorium on fracking in Western Australia will lead to very few new jobs, despite hopes and promises of economic benefits, ...

A major milestone has been reached on Australia's journey to become a top ten global defence exporter. The Australian government department of defence has ...

A briefing for WA government MPs on a report into the economics of fracking was cancelled even after the report authors had already flown to Perth.

Up to 40 jobs at Aboriginal Hostels Limited will be moved across the country to towns in Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia. The positions ...

A STATE Government decision will keep a gold mine operating and hundreds of people in work for at least the next 13 years. Resolute Mining's Ravenswood ...

The state government has moved to help expand WA's mining sector into brine mining by offering a drastic reduction in rental rates for brine industry projects.

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The response to the announcement by premier Mark McGowan that Western Australia would be opened up to fracking has been first disbelief, followed by anger ...

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When Mark McGowan took over from Eric Ripper as WA Labor leader in 2012, he came out swinging on an issue he felt his party needed to shake off in order to ...

Kelly O'Dwyer accuses Labor of 'secret deal' with unions that would lead to 'industrial conflict and chaos'

WESTERN Australia's Harvest Road beef supply chain plans to spend up to $50 million developing a large-scale integrated backgrounding and intensive ...

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The big Perth-based engineering and construction company RCR Tomlinson has gone into administration just months after raising $100 million in *fresh* capital ...

Premier Mark McGowan has defended embattled corrections minister Fran Logan during an announcement of a mid-term reshuffle of his cabinet, saying the ...

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Scotland's National Health *Service* hit headlines for allegedly "poaching" WA nurses in a recruitment drive this week. But the topic of graduate program ...

A new survey has found just 16 per cent of WA residents have a plan ready to enact in the event of a fire.

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There will be thousands of jobs associated with these projects. Too many for just Western Australians to fill.”

The WA Government lifts a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing but says it will maintain a ban in the Perth, Peel and South West regions, with the move dividing ...

SYDNEY, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- Western Australia's (WA) mining and resources sector is in the midst of a "skills shortage," Chamber of Minerals and Energy of WA ...

West Australian Premier Mark McGowan has launched an attack on Clive Palmer, threatening to alter a key contract in the hope of solving the latest dispute ...

A $4.5 billion fertiliser plant in the Pilbara that will create more than 2000 construction jobs moved closer to reality today with Perdaman signing up for 20 years ...

Alcoa has secured gas supply agreements with three leading producers that will cover 25 per cent of its requirements in Western Australia from 2020.

A 20-year gas supply deal struck between Woodside Petroleum and Perdaman has lifted the prospects for a fertilisers plant in WA.

The Afghani community throughout the state are rallying behind a popular Adelaide father allegedly murdered by his close friend during an Outback road trip.

FIVE years after Australia celebrated its biggest mining boom in history, the limping industry is picking up again — but this time around it seems like Aussies ...

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Employment across WA has reached its highest level in three years, with new figures showing the jobs market strengthening. The Australian Bureau of Statistics ...

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WA has the nation's strongest job market with thousands of people finding full-time work as the State's economic recovery gains traction. Bureau of Statistics ...

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WA's emergence as a global lithium powerhouse has helped drive the number of people employed directly in mining across the State to a record high.

Walking into a donga, the tiny tin-sheds in which thousands of Australia's fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) workers spend weeks away from home, isn't easy for the men and ...

Major aquaculture company Huon has secured a lease to operate a big yellowtail kingfish farm off Geraldton, in what's been touted as a game-changer for WA's ...

During the last mining boom people flew in to Western Australia from all over the country and abroad to earn the ridiculous wages being offered, but poaching ...

A record number of West Australians have a job, with figures suggesting the State's employment market is the strongest since the election of the McGowan ...

COUNTRY areas are experiencing a win-win with recently arrived migrants adding value and jobs to the economy.

The number of available engineering jobs in Western Australia has jumped by 33 per cent over the past 12 months, underscoring fears from miners such as Rio ...

AN alliance of energy giants is preparing to make Perth the *service* centre for Australia's giant LNG projects.

Albemarle Corp's proposed Kemerton lithium plant in the South West region in Western Australia has received its environmental approval from the state ...

Western Australia's unemployment rate has risen to its highest level in 16 years, in what analysts say is a result of restrictive retail trading hours and high payroll ...

The West Australian government has named Rebecca Brown as the new director general of the Department of Jobs, Tourism, Science and Innovation. Rebecca ...

Western Australia stands to gain 93,000 jobs and a $56 billion shot in the arm of its economy by 2025 if it expands its lithium and new energy metals sector ...

LOOKING for a new job? Good news — because nearly 3000 brand new positions are now up for grabs, just in time for Christmas.

Chevron is preparing to shed about 400 employees from its WA business, just months after approving a new construction project and backing an LNG jobs ...

Australians up to their mid-30s are increasingly relying on part-time work, as turnaround in the WA jobs market has taken root only in the past three months.

WA's economy is on the mend with evidence appearing “every day” of growing confidence from business and consumers that is translating into more jobs, Mark ...

Australia's workforce is set to transform within six years with teachers, nurses and farmers in line for a future jobs boom. But positions in retail, mining and the ...

OUR nation's job market is booming — the mining industry is picking up again, contractors are practically begging teens to consider a trade and the defence ...

Resources giant BHP last night pressed the button on a new $4.7 billion iron ore mine in the Pilbara which it says will employ 2500 people during construction ...

BHP will invest nearly $4 billion in a new mine in WA's Pilbara, announcing the move to push ahead with the South Flank project, which will replace its aging ...

Western Australian farmers could be set for an influx of international seasonal workers as the drought over east forces a scale back of the casual farm workforce.

HUNDREDS of submarine jobs should be immediately shipped west if that is where the sustainment of the ageing Collins class submarines ends up, a top ...

They're occupations most of us can only dream of, but we met the people in Perth that arguably have the best jobs in town.

Chronic job shortages in sectors such as hospitality, childcare and administration in the Pilbara could become easier to fill in a matter of months with the revival ...

THE number of job vacancies across the state have reached their highest level since the peak of the mining boom - with the health sector a major player.

WA has bucked softer-than-expected job figures with a firm lift in the number of people getting full-time employment across the State. Figures from the Australian ...

Motorists on Perth's two primary roads will soon be getting home faster and safer with work starting on major upgrades of the Mitchell and Kwinana freeways.

TOTAL job vacancies rose to 238200 in the June-August quarter, the highest level since statistics started to be collected almost 40 years ago.

One of the McGowan Government's most senior bureaucrats, Stephen Wood, is axed from his position over his management of tourism in WA, which has ...

Western Australia's unemployment was described as a monumental crisis by Labor in opposition. Now in government, the same party sees signs of rising ...

The state's peak business body has described the government's plan for extended trading hours this Christmas as "pushing shoppers online and strangling WA ...

CITIC Pacific Mining chief executive Chen Zeng has warned WA's future as a mining province and destination for investment is at stake in his company's ...

Improving pockets of WA's economy are expected to drive the economy over the next 12 months, according to a recent survey by the Chamber of Commerce and ...

More than one thousand jobs will be created through the world's biggest lithium mine set to be built in WA.

When Peter James was made redundant from his engineering job in his 50s he felt angry and disappointed - but not surprised. Despite devoting himself to the ...

Human Services Minister Michael Keenan says the Federal Government will create more than 600 jobs in a new Centrelink call centre in West Perth to help ...

Pork prices at a decade low have forced Western Australia's largest pig producer, Westpork, to shelve its plans for a $21 million, 68000-head piggery near ...

JUST 10 women run public companies based in WA, in another example the old-fashioned “blokey” culture is more entrenched here than anywhere else in ...

WA's unemployment rate has fallen to its lowest level in more than a year on the back of a surge in full-time employment. The Australian Bureau of Statistics ...

Iron ore shipments out of Esperance are set to resume in the coming weeks after train loads of ore again started rolling into town.

The WA industry participation strategy outlines several requirements for companies who win big government contracts across all areas of government.

The state government is trying to turn around a decline in foreign students coming to WA, but the opposition has belted their plan.

Australia's Kidman Resources and joint venture partner, Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM), plan to build a new lithium refinery at Kwinana in Western ...

The Greenbushes lithium mine is doubling down on its expansion, with its US and Chinese owners committing to a new $500 million investment even before a ...

Up to 13000 public sector workers employed on casual or fixed-term contracts in Western Australia will be considered for secure permanent roles this year, Pr...

International students will need a full-time job offer and 'proficient English' to be eligible under this graduate stream.

The operations boss behind one of WA's biggest lithium mines says the mining job market is 'warming up' but a crippling skills shortage on the same level as the ...

Newly appointed WA Governor Kim Beazley has dispensed with apolitical protocols to scold the Federal Government's lack of appreciation of WA's potential as a ...

An audit of WA Labor's 'Local Projects, Local jobs' election cash scheme has uncovered "shortcomings" in how the project's $38 million in grants have been ...

Kwinana has been chosen as the site of a lithium refinery, which is expected to run as a joint venture between Chilean lithium giant SQM and Kidman Resources ...

Governments hail nature-based tourism as a win-win but conservationists say Australia's wild places belong to everyone and shouldn't be sold out.

The jobs market looks to be tightening and the prospects for wage rises growing, with more jobs being created and underutilisation rates falling.