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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 ...
WA police officers had “little faith” the right people were being promoted across the agency and believed “captain's picks” and “mates” were being favoured for ...
Forecasts made by state and territory treasuries reveal none are as optimistic about wages, inflation or jobs growth as the federal government.
One of four digging units is out of *service*, directly leading to the loss of the 20 jobs.
I find it really frustrating that we are forced to wait 11am on a Sunday for our shopping centres and major department stores to be able to open their doors.
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 ...
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 ...
FORMER WA police commissioner Karl O'Callaghan says a "quick and dirty" report aims to trash his legacy.
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 ...
Australia coach Justin Langer says Pat Howard's replacements will have the thick skins needed for one of th...
West Australians will reap the benefits of more jobs as a result of a continuing Coalition Government, the mining sector says.
High profile WA Labor MP Anne Aly has said she won't be backing all of the Coalition's tax cuts because of fears the economy is sliding into recession.
For Australia to meet its Paris climate agreement target, we have to reduce carbon emissions up to 28 per cent on 2005 levels by 2030; but in Western Australia ...
21 inspiring Western Australian scientists announced as finalists in Premier's Science Awards Four finalists in new Aboriginal STEM Student of the Year...
The RailSmart Platform integrates numerous sets of data to work out how the city of Perth functions and how people move around.
The latest SMART Farm technology has once again been highlighted at this year's FarmSmart showcase at Muresk Institute in Northam. More than 350 farmers, ...
Employment company SEEK has revealed that the mining, resources and energy sector was the third-strongest contributor to the Australian employment market ...
Australia's first nationally recognised course in automation was launched in Perth on Wednesday morning. The qualifications have been more than a year in the ...
Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has declared WA will not be forgotten as he vowed to boost jobs and the local economy in the next three years of ...
The NSW Treasurer has taken a swipe at South Australia saying “no one who comes to Australia comes to Adelaide”. Delivering the state's 2019 Budget today, ...
Pregnant women and newborn babies in the Kimberley are facing critical *service* shortages after six midwife jobs were left vacant across the region over the last ...
Edith Cowan University and South Metropolitan TAFE have partnered with the Naval Shipbuilding College to ensure Western Australian graduates are ready to ...
Incoming Defence Minister Linda Reynolds is under pressure to guarantee the future of hundreds of South Australian submarine and ship-building jobs in her ...
John Quigley says laws include 'ongoing orders' for activists who have been charged with trespassing.
Rio Tinto has backed the Western Australian Government's election commitment and first-ever strategy for enhancing the state's science, technology, ...
A stalemate over iron ore waste has the mining magnate and Mark McGowan at loggerheads and 3000 jobs on the line.
Geneva: Developing countries, not rich Western nations, are bearing the brunt of the world's refugee crisis and are hosting most of the record 70.8 million ...
We have learnt to be wary of big data, but it can also be your friend: one platform combines and analyses data about housing, jobs and transport to reveal very ...
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 ...
The former senior West Australian public servant at the centre of an alleged rorting scandal in Tokyo has agreed to pay the state back $540,000, Premier Mark ...
A West Australian premier tourism venture is set to make its mark on the East Kimberley in July, bringing an economic boost to a remote community.
The state's rock lobster industry turns down a deal it earlier struck with the Government to make more lobsters available at lower prices to West Australian ...
Now that the federal election is over, the role regional Australia played in the result is now being analysed with great interest.
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A public servant in charge of managing the rehabilitation of WA's abandoned mines has been accused of serious misconduct by the Corruption and Crime ...
Minister assisting the Minister for State Development, Jobs and Trade, Alannah MacTiernan, said this week that hydrogen had massive applications in the ...
If we are on the verge of a workless future, then why are there more jobs now than ever?
There is a way to reconcile action on climate change with regional jobs and unite Australians behind a shared vision of sustainable prosperity.
Data from a global jobs listing site shows that Western Australia's green job sector is currently outperforming every other state. The jobs listing data from search ...
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 ...
Barnaby Joyce didn't know he had lost his job as drought special envoy until journalists told him. “Just found out from you guys then,” he tweeted to Sky News ...
Put simply, governments need to invest in people and the places that they live.
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.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is vowing to improve the way Australians interact with the government on everything from tax to social services in a cabinet ...
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 ...
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 ...
As a result of advances in medicine, lifestyle change and the eradication of many fatal diseases, East Metro Health *Service's* Leon Flicker says life expectancy ...
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.
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 ...
We may be deep into January but if you're clinging to that dream of a career move in 2019, this could help you decide the direction you take.
WA is no longer on the bottom of CommSec's 'State of the States' economic league table, but still lags behind the east, especially on jobs and construction.
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 ...
A bold target of 150000 new jobs within five year, increasing conservation land by five million hectares and slashing Indigenous incarceration by almost a ...
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 ...
Problems facing the coal mining sector in Australia have lowered job demands nationally, with the exception of Western Australia.
Ray* is a rural West Australian who lost his job around 18 months ago and hasn't been able to find another one. He had to move out of his house and rent a ...
A record number of West Australians are now employed, but the State still has the second-highest unemployment rate in the country.
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 ...
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, ...
The ore that is turned into lithium, spodumene, recorded sales of $1.6 billion, 34 per cent higher than the year before.
Our first priority is always to fill jobs with Australians, but the immigration system can play an important role in helping to address regional skills gaps”
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
It's the issue everyone wants to talk about — but just why is it so hard for young people to get work these days?
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 ...
Change is hard, and often frustrating. But business as usual will miss an opportunity which could be bigger than mining.
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 ...
Employment company SEEK has cited the mining, resources and energy sector as one of the five biggest industries for job growth over the past year.
Western Australian university graduates are lagging behind their eastern states counterparts in securing full-time jobs.
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 ...
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.
The WA lithium jobs boom looks set to continue into 2019 with industry enthusiasm manifesting into huge investment. US lithium giant Albemarle on Thursday ...
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.
Western Australia saw the highest rise in mining job vacancies in 2018 among Australia's states and territories, according to a report from DFP Resources.
Billionaire investors are being encouraged to visit WA to see the energy revolution that the Government hopes will power the State's economy.
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 ...
Another 25700 new jobs, mainly full-time, was not enough to stop the unemployment rate rising as more people looked for work.
Perth is the only Australian city to be admitted into the World Energy Cities Partnership, which signifies Western Australia's continual growth as a world energy ...
Optus staff have been told there will be 150 redundancies across WA, as most of its company-owned stores will be transferred to retail partners such as Optus ...
At least 3000 jobs at WA alumina refineries would be at risk if Labor's emissions reduction target is introduced, new Liberal party modelling claims.
Western Australia's resources industry achieved a bumper year in 2018, reaching a record $127.4 billion in sales mainly thanks to an 81% boost from the ...
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.
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 ...
Qantas has delivered its report card on the first anniversary of its Perth to London nonstop *service* ... and the numbers are mind-boggling.
Sandgropers are trekking across the Nullarbor in droves, abandoning WA in search of richer economic pastures on the east coast.
The Australian Government is providing a $25 million grant to an industry-led battery research centre in Perth, WA, which recognises the state as a global leader ...
Australia's economy has been sombre and morose in recent times. It feels like everything keeps going wrong. But then the unemployment data comes in and it ...
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 ...
Australian job vacancies rose to a record high in the three months to February, pointing to not only firm hiring levels in months ahead but also a slightly reduced ...
Community pressure has prompted BHP to offer a drive-in, drive-out option for workers at its Pilbara mines so they can achieve a better work/life balance by ...
Business conditions have deteriorated sharply, with steep falls in employment prospects, as well as sales and profits, according to the NAB business survey.
Under questioning from Centre Alliance Senator Rex Patrick, ASC CEO Stuart Whiley conceded in a Senate estimates hearing that he had “received a tasking ...
HEARING of suicides every week, knowing their relationship is breaking down — but having no reception to even try and fix it — and watching their mates spiral ...
The McGowan Government has been urged to lift the payroll tax threshold by $100000 to help small businesses create more jobs in a struggling economy.
A WA union is threatening to disrupt the start of construction at a $1 billion lithium processing plant near Bunbury over complaints local workers risked being ...
The plant was expected to create 500 construction jobs and another 500 jobs in the south-west once operational.