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More of us are going through it, but nobody wants to talk about mortgage stress. Talking about mortgages is one of the more boring things you can do. Anyone ...
More than 200 long-term jobs will be created in Western Australia as the state government moves to boost the amount of railcars made locally.
Innovation Consortium unlocks new ideas to create more jobs through the McGowan Government's innovation hubs WA Government's consortium series to...
The fight for hundreds of defence jobs has escalated, with Premier Steven Marshall declaring Western Australia incapable of doing the work. The WA State ...
Australia's unemployment rate is holding steady at 5.2 per cent as a surprise job creation bounce offsets an increase in the number of people looking for work.
McGowan Government announces Alstom as preferred proponent to deliver six new Australind rail cars 50 per cent of the railcars must be made in Western...
Almost 800 businesses will be affected and a further 400 million in economic activity could be lost each year if a submarine maintenance program goes to ...
A second “Valley of Death” looms at Adelaide shipbuilder ASC, the union warns, if 700 jobs are moved to Western Australia. South Australian Labor Senator ...
Three WA minerals projects will receive a share of $30 million worth of government grants to support the development of new technology and create hundreds ...
SA's entertainment union is challenging the Mortal Kombat production, claiming it has overstated the number of local jobs it will provide.
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Monadelphous has won a contract to provide services to Albemarle's Kemerton lithium hydroxide plant near Bunbury in Western Australia. The Perth-based ...
West Australians pushing to steal a lucrative submarine maintenance program from South Australia could be underestimating the difficulty in getting a workforce, ...
An Australian mining company has been told to "get lost" and "go back to Australia" amid an ongoing row over hundreds of thousands of tonnes of radioactive ...
Fortescue Metals Group has awarded Civmec a contract for the delivery of the primary crushing and ore processing facility at its Eliwana iron ore project in the ...
The co-ordinators of WA's new container deposit scheme will be in Kalgoorlie-Boulder next week to explain how local organisations can get involved with the ...
A plan to probe the Great Australian Bight for gas and oil using seismic testing is delayed, with the company behind the move confirming its testing will be ...
It is expected about 30 workers will be affected by the closure of the first Muja C unit five on October 1, 2022. A further 40 to 50 workers will be impacted by the ...
Investors have been warned not to think they can cash in on the recently-approved Adani coal mine by buying up property around the huge Queensland project.
Total hourly pay rates, excluding bonuses, rose by 0.6 per cent in the June quarter but annual wage growth remains flat.
AUSTRALIA'S most significant export assets are largely grouped in and around the Kimberley and Pilbara regions of northwest Western Australia.
A new employment report shows the number of job ads has dramatically dropped in recent times, while essential industries are those enjoying the greatest pay ...
The State Government's push to shift maintenance work for the Collins class submarines to the west could inject $1 billion into the WA economy.
The Government of West Australia has selected Alstom as preferred bidder to deliver a total of 252 electric multiple-unit cars.
It has taken five years, but the housing markets that have been savaged by the resources downturn are finally staging a sustained recovery, new data show.
Premier Steven Marshall will visit Prime Minster Scott Morrison this week to launch an offensive to ensure more than 700 submarine jobs remain in Adelaide.
Highest number of WA tourism industry jobs on record Tourism Research Australia State Tourism Satellite Account 2017-18 released Report reveals...
Federal Finance Minister Mathias Cormann has weighed into the growing brawl over a push to revive the Perth Freight Link.
New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian has vowed to turn Western Sydney into a “Silicon Valley of 3D printing“ that will secure thousands of long-term jobs ...
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Business Council of Australia chief Jennifer Westacott will today lash the Environment Protection Biodiversity and Conservation Act, saying it stymies resources ...
US President Trump's bizarre boast that he has destroyed millions of Chinese jobs has reignited concerns about the economic health of Australia's biggest ...
A tourism boost across South Australia has created more than 1600 jobs in the past year, new figures reveal.
The number of jobs advertised online dipped 0.6 per cent in June, marking a sixth consecutive month of falls recorded by the federal government's Internet ...
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After a two-year slide, the latest stats show we're at or near the bottom of this property cycle. Here's a breakdown, state by state.
A Wheatbelt farmer is helping turn the region into an industry leader for beer production. Goomalling farmer Rex Rowles will use a state government Agricultu...
This PhD opportunity is for engineering, mathematics, statistics and/or computer science students with an interest in being involved in data science research that ...
Moranbah is on the list to be included in discount program for regional Australia.
City of Paramatta has appointed a new chief executive officer after more than a year-long search, and he comes from the property industry, a smart choice given ...
The unemployment rate in Western Australia has reached its highest since 2002 and, despite a new promise of 150000 more jobs, the Chamber of Commerce ...
Western Australia ushers in the new year with a 2.7 per cent increase in job vacancies last month, crowning it as the dominant state in the mining sector.
Western Australia's unemployment rate climbs to its highest level in nearly two decades as a record number of people seek work, with the Opposition labelling ...
An American company building WA's largest lithium refinery has received pushback from locals in WA's South West, amid concerns it is sourcing most of its ...
Job seekers in Queensland can be confident as vacancies are at their highest since January 2014, with a 5.3 per cent rise in March 2019. This contributes to a ...
A increase in female average earnings has offset a fall for men, to keep Canberrans as having the largest pay packets in the nation.
Thinking of a career change? Here's the four sectors where skills will be in most demand and how much each job will pay ...
As many as 200 jobs are expected to be lost from BHP's Perth office as part of a round of more than 700 redundancies across the mining giant's operations ...
The local economy is sharply heading upwards, with billions of dollars of business investment gathering pace on a new wave of resource projects.
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 ...
Young people moving from the country to the city have revealed that the lack of employment is forcing them to rely on friends and family just to keep a roof over ...
West Australian workers look like missing out on thousands of new jobs that are being set aside for a new wave of overseas tradesmen.
A record number of West Australians are now employed, but the State still has the second-highest unemployment rate in the country.
The council's top-heavy bureaucracy is being targeted as the chief executive admits soaring staff costs need to be brought under control.
With the third season of Netflix series 13 Reasons Why premiering this week, we're preparing for the new show by taking a look at one of the actresses from the ...
WA's volatile jobless rate fell from 6.9 to 5.9 per cent in February, amid fears Labor's wages policy will force three quarters of businesses to cut back on staff.
Fewer than one in three WA business owners plans to hire new staff this quarter as economic confidence slumps, underscoring the need for urgent payroll tax ...
West Australians will reap the benefits of more jobs as a result of a continuing Coalition Government, the mining sector says.
Not a single extra West Australian is in a job compared to nine months ago. New figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show there were 1,337,700 West ...
Your guide to the biggest resources projects taking off in WA within the next few years, where to find them, and the skills that will be in short supply ...
Mark McGowan is to intensify WA's case for a bigger share of gas jobs and investment billions with a direct pitch to industry leaders at a major petroleum ...
Real data is finally matching political spin when it comes to the recovery of WA's economy after the latest drop in unemployment, but not everything is rosy, writes ...
Resources Minister Matt Canavan has warned thousands of West Australian jobs could be lost if new rules for carbon emissions drafted by the State's ...
The State Government steps up its campaign to lure submarine work from across the Nullarbor.
Woodside Energy will require a workforce of more than 4600 workers when its Burrup Hub construction reaches its peak in 2023.
Mark McGowan is yet to deliver on his pre-election plan to create 50000 new jobs, but that hasn't stopped him setting a series of even more ambitious targets, ...
A shake-up of Optus' WA retail operations is believed to have cost staff at six Perth stores their jobs. The telco confirmed ownership of most of its ...
A bold target of 150000 new jobs within five year, increasing conservation land by five million hectares and slashing Indigenous incarceration by almost a ...
CHEVRON and Woodside Energy are to supply South32-operated joint venture (JV) Worsley Alumina with a total of about 100 petajoules, PJ (1.75m t) of ...
WA's trend unemployment rate has finally declined to the level it was 15 months ago, but it can partly be explained by a shrinking labour force.
Hundreds of Perth nursing graduates who have been unable to find work will relocate to Britain under a five-year deal struck by the WA Health Department to ...
The State Government's multimillion dollar investment in wave energy technology in Albany has created just 21 jobs in two years — most of them in Perth.
Four regions in WA are among the 20 worst “hotspots” for youth unemployment in the country, with one in six young people in parts of Perth out of work.
Change is hard, and often frustrating. But business as usual will miss an opportunity which could be bigger than mining.
There's a growing demand for engineers in WA, and legislation to establish a state infrastructure authority is a promising sign for the future. But the outlook isn't ...
Construction on three new navy ships will be brought forward in Western Australia as the coalition bids to save seats with the promise of defence spending and...
Proposed new tourist attractions — including an 80km/h zip-line across the Swan River — are being strangled by red tape, prompting calls for a major overhaul ...
Fortescue Metals Group gives the go-ahead to its second major iron ore mine development in the Pilbara in just 12 months, promising the Iron Bridge project will ...
Oil and gas companies are pillars of our society. Requiring them to offset their pollution would amount to reckless endangerment of our jobs and economy.
A *fresh* political row has broken out over billions of dollars worth of work on Australia's submarine fleet as the Defence Department mulls sending hundreds of ...
WA businesses will hire more staff and spend more on wages as 2019 shapes up as a bonanza year for the State's economy — with workers to be the big ...
Rio Tinto's fly-in fly-out (FIFO) program has delivered strong economic benefits for regional towns in Western Australia through employment and high spending.
The ore that is turned into lithium, spodumene, recorded sales of $1.6 billion, 34 per cent higher than the year before.
The loss of at least 30 jobs in a major round of redundancies at WA's only statewide daily newspaper raises concerns from government and media insiders that ...
If you're looking for a job right now, there's good news and there's bad news.
Print and television giant Seven West Media buys up all of WA's Community Newspaper Group, bringing several of of the state's remaining suburban ...
Western Australian university graduates are lagging behind their eastern states counterparts in securing full-time jobs.
Job vacancies in the mining and resources sector dipped in April by 1.1 per cent, despite strong commodity prices over the past three months.
Collapsing bars, restaurants and retailers are having a crippling flow-on effect for young jobseekers, more than one in seven of whom are desperate for work.
The McGowan Government will set quotas for employing veterans in State departments as part of efforts to help members of the military transition to civilian life.
Premier Mark McGowan is under mounting pressure to quash a “job-killing” plan by WA's environment watchdog to make big polluters pay for their carbon ...
Parents are discouraging their teenage children from pursuing careers in the resources sector because they mistakenly believe there are “no jobs” in the ...
I have always said that creating WA jobs is my number one priority. Since the election in 2017, my team has been delivering on our agenda and our Plan for ...
What is expected to be the world's largest lithium refinery has reached a major milestone, with construction starting on the $1 billion project south of Perth.
BDO Australia has reported that wages in the mining sector are rising above the levels seen in the last boom, particularly in Western Australia.
Plans to make Casuarina Prison one of the largest prisons in Australia will attempt to address years of uncertainty around the WA justice system's ability to keep ...
Bill Shorten has revealed he will hold a National Jobs Summit of business and union leaders in Perth next month if he wins Saturday's federal election.
In the fight for more jobs, new industries and a stronger, more diversified economy, WA suddenly finds itself with a big new weapon: cheap gas.
FIGURES show that since March, WA has added almost 24000 full-time jobs. No other State has had such a strong lift in full-time work in the same period.
Benefits only flow mutually when the State Agreement is adhered to in terms of the rules of law — and rules of engagement.