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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
South Australia beats strong national competition to house the Australian Space Agency, with Prime Minister Scott Morrison describing it as a launching pad to ...
A Government plan to muscle in on the $470 million rock lobster industry has fishers fearing one of WA's most lucrative primary export industries could be ...
Lifting a state-wide moratorium on fracking in Western Australia will lead to very few new jobs, despite hopes and promises of economic benefits, ...
The WA government has dropped the rental rate for brine mining to $2.32 per hectare for the first five years of the lease and $4.64 per hectare in an effort to build ...
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 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.
Premier Mark McGowan has defended embattled corrections minister Fran Logan during an announcement of a mid-term reshuffle of his cabinet, saying the ...
Ever thought about working in Antarctica? The views are incredible and the experience like no other — plus, you may even find love, just like Lisa and Chris.
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 ...
This article is reprinted with permission from The West Australian. It was first published 1/12/18 in The Weekend West which is published every Saturday.
The big Perth-based engineering and construction company RCR Tomlinson has gone into administration just months after raising $100 million in *fresh* capital ...
2 year research intensive appointment; Full time hours (or part time work arrangement is available); Salary range: Level A $68,452 - $92,497 p.a. or Level B ...
Scotland's National Health *Service* hit headlines for allegedly "poaching" WA nurses in a recruitment drive this week. But the topic of graduate program ...
UWA Medical School Rural Clinical School of WA. Albany, Bunbury or Kalgoorlie based; Level A, part-time appointment on a fixed term basis to December 2020 ...
Faculty of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences. Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems. Three year appointment; Salary range: Level A Step 8 $92,497.00.
There will be thousands of jobs associated with these projects. Too many for just Western Australians to fill.”
Western Australia's Alcoa of Australia Limited announced earlier this week an agreement with a trio of energy providers to supply one-quarter of the firm's ...
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 ...
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 ...
A 20-year gas supply deal struck between Woodside Petroleum and Perdaman has lifted the prospects for a fertilisers plant in WA.
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 ...
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 ...
More than 20000 homes across Sydney and the Central Coast were still without power on Sunday night after severe thunderstorms lashed the state at the ...
Employment recruiters say scary and misunderstood reports of automation killing off jobs are contributing to a new skills shortage in Western Australia as ...
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 ...
Thousands crowd the city streets, fighting each other, looting shops and battling with the thuggish baton-wielding militia that's replaced the police.
As Melbourne's Sudanese community fought to defend itself this year from blanket accusations of gang violence, the ripple effect was felt hundred of kilometres ...
Employment across WA has reached its highest level in three years, with new figures showing the jobs market strengthening. The Australian Bureau of Statistics ...
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.
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 ...
Perth people are less satisfied with their city than they used to be but most still believe it is a good place to raise a family and want to stay long term.
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 ...
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 ...
Britain's weakened Prime Minister Theresa May arrived in Brussels on Thursday to lobby European leaders for help after she survived a parliamentary mutiny ...
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 ...
AN alliance of energy giants is preparing to make Perth the *service* centre for Australia's giant LNG projects.
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 ...
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 ...
Albemarle Corp's proposed Kemerton lithium plant in the South West region in Western Australia has received its environmental approval from the state ...
COUNTRY areas are experiencing a win-win with recently arrived migrants adding value and jobs to the economy.
The West Australian government has named Rebecca Brown as the new director general of the Department of Jobs, Tourism, Science and Innovation. Rebecca ...
LOOKING for a new job? Good news — because nearly 3000 brand new positions are now up for grabs, just in time for Christmas. Australia Post has revealed it ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
TOTAL job vacancies rose to 238200 in the June-August quarter, the highest level since statistics started to be collected almost 40 years ago.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
The state government is trying to turn around a decline in foreign students coming to WA, but the opposition has belted their plan.
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 ...
The WA industry participation strategy outlines several requirements for companies who win big government contracts across all areas of government.
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 ...
The jobs market looks to be tightening and the prospects for wage rises growing, with more jobs being created and underutilisation rates falling.
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
International students will need a full-time job offer and 'proficient English' to be eligible under this graduate stream.
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...
TINSEL is yet to appear but it's already looking like a merry festive season for job seekers, with a surge in retail jobs on offer as stores scramble to fill roles for the ...
The Western Australian Government has announced the appointment of Rebecca Brown as Chief Executive of Tourism WA and Director General of the ...
Two heads of Pilbara local governments have urged the State Government to shift its focus towards attracting people to live in the region, rather than pushing its ...
A PRISONER at the centre of CCTV vision released by the CCC to highlight “unreasonable force” by guards was the same inmate who allegedly stabbed an ...
Recruitment specialists say mining companies, desperate for workers in remote areas, are again turning to FIFO workers from the eastern states, but are unlikely ...
GEOPHYSICISTS, engineers, nurses and public servants are just some of the professions that have experienced the biggest salary drops in the space of a year, ...
Growing demand for lithium has turned one of WA's oldest mining hubs into an international force.
Small remote towns around the Western Australia's Pilbara region have benefitted from a national program addressing the educational needs of young ...
BHP will focus on local jobs for its new $4.8 billion South Flank iron ore project in the Pilbara, says the mining giant's Australian president Mike Henry.
Rio Tinto says an independent analysis has shown its WA operations generated $27.3 billion for the State's economy last year. The ACIL Allen Consulting report ...
Fisheries Minister Dave Kelly has announced plans to significantly expand WA's western rock lobster industry in a move he claims could create 500 jobs and ...
The West Australian has hit back at WA Opposition leader Mike Nahan's accusation that the Seven West Media-owned newspaper attacked him in its reporting.
Jobs for professionals are on the rise across the nation. But if you're a labourer or sales person, the news isn't so good.
WA's electrifying lithium jobs boom received a power-up today with another producer announcing plans to set up shop in Kwinana. WA Lithium - a 50/50 joint ...
The $5.1 billion second stage of the Gorgon project will have a peak workforce of 700 local people in late 2021 and potentially 1400 over the course of the ...
It was the third consecutive month that the unemployment rate has dipped in the State, but it remains the highest in the country.
Woodside's award of major contracts to US giants Bechtel and KBR has heightened concerns that WA will see little from a possible $900 million worth of ...
When Australia's population hit 25 million, there were calls for a migration debate. But in mining areas like WA's Goldfields where the downturn has made way ...