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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 ...
Another 25700 new jobs, mainly full-time, was not enough to stop the unemployment rate rising as more people looked for work.
The loss of decades of journalism experience and knowledge from the latest round of redundancies at The West Australian newspaper will "denude" its ...
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.
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 ...
The ore that is turned into lithium, spodumene, recorded sales of $1.6 billion, 34 per cent higher than the year before.
Funding for the replacement of the rapidly deteriorating Fremantle Traffic Bridge will be provided in the forthcoming state budget.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has lashed out at anti-Adani coal mine protesters who likened working for the Indian multinational business group to being an ...
AAP FactCheck Investigation: Has under-employment in Australia remained stubbornly high under the coalition government? The Statement "Under the Liberals ...
Construction has begun on what will be Australia's biggest lithium processing plant in WA's South West region. US lithium giant Albemarle's $1 billion Kemerton ...
Greens leader Richard Di Natale will today announce plans to put WA at the centre of the nation's efforts to transition to renewable energy over the next decade.
A new campaign calling for an overhaul Western Australia's approvals process to enable the development of a series of tourism attractions has been launched ...
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 ...
Construction officially begins on Albemarle's lithium plant in Kemerton.
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A man who was wrongfully jailed for murder in Western Australia has been killed in the US in an apparent hit and run. Andrew Mallard was imprisoned for 12 ...
A Perth single mum who has been searching for a job for two years is worried her savings are going to run out.
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Department of Industry, Innovation and Science figures reveal flat lithium export revenue figures for the next five years as supply overtakes demand.
Greens MP Diane Evers has called out the State Government's new forestry agreement, claiming it continues to put endangered species under threat from ...
The mining industry is set for an overhaul with big changes to make FIFO work more family friendly and less stressful. A new code was unveiled today by WA ...
When Treasurer Josh Frydenberg hands down his maiden budget next week, it will be an election document bloated by the proceeds of mining revenues — but ...
Female futures traders in Australia earn nearly 4 per cent more than their male counterparts, with an eye-watering average income of $315,197. It's one of 72 out ...
Commander Michael Doncaster has had a long and illustrious career in the Royal Australian Navy and he will be joining Moree for the town's ANZAC Day ...
We have quantified the effects of twelve power station closures in five states. Local unemployment shoots up and comes down only slowly.
The government has broadly kept to the restrained growth of the public sector seen in the budgets of recent years. But the Nationals leadership think there's still ...
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American personal care giant Kimberly-Clark today revealed it will shut its western Sydney factory and lay off 220 staff.
A study led by The University of Western Australia and funded by the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE) has found improvements ...
PREMIER Mark McGowan has announced a $10 million boost to the liquefied natural gas (LNG) market that could create up to 1400 new jobs. The State ...
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Woolworths will close about 30 underperforming Big W stores and two distribution centres over the next three years after increasing numbers of shoppers took ...
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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 ...
The Australian dollar has stayed soft as investors shift to the greenback on renewed optimism about the US economy's health following a better-than-expected ...
The Australian government is injecting AUD 7 million ($5.0m) over the next three years to help fast-track the growth of West Australia's aquaculture industry.
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 ...
From his unassuming location at the southern end of the Rouse Street, proudly painted in Castrol colours, Ron Williams has forged a reputation for rebuilding ...
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 ...
Australia heads to national polls on May 18 with two rival leaders who are not much liked and two main parties trying to appeal to a divided elec.
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 ...
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, ...
Sandgropers are trekking across the Nullarbor in droves, abandoning WA in search of richer economic pastures on the east coast.
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 ...
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.
Western Australian university graduates are lagging behind their eastern states counterparts in securing full-time jobs. The Australian Education Department's ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
COUNTRY areas are experiencing a win-win with recently arrived migrants adding value and jobs to the economy.
Corvus field appraisal drilling confirmed more gas resources offshore Western Australia. Drillers reported a 2093-ft gross interval, one of the largest columns to ...
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 ...
Peel's booming population has prompted the City of Mandurah to appoint a specialist team, dedicated to attracting and stimulating investment.
Work on WA's latest $1 billion lithium plant will start within days as US resources giant Albemarle begins building a major processing facility outside Bunbury, ...
Problems facing the coal mining sector in Australia have lowered job demands nationally, with the exception of Western Australia.
Under questioning from Centre Alliance Senator Rex Patrick, ASC CEO Stuart Whiley conceded in a Senate estimates hearing that he had “received a tasking ...
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 ...
Employment recruiters say scary and misunderstood reports of automation killing off jobs are contributing to a new skills shortage in Western Australia as ...
Three women are making history as they take the reigns of WA's largest not-for-profit organisations as their first-ever female chief executives.
FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN: DAY 7 WHERE THE LEADERS CAMPAIGNED * Prime Minister Scott Morrison: Tasmania (Braddon and Bass) * Labor ...
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 ...
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 ...
Billionaire investors are being encouraged to visit WA to see the energy revolution that the Government hopes will power the State's economy.
Despite economic growth slipping back under 3 per cent, strong growth in part-time jobs before Christmas helps to push down the unemployment rate.
Rio Tinto, BHP and Fortescue Metals Group have all announced major new mining projects, but don't start comparing it to the mining boom of 2004–12. We will ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Employment across WA has reached its highest level in three years, with new figures showing the jobs market strengthening. The Australian Bureau of Statistics ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Treasurer Ben Wyatt has dismissed a sharp rise in the WA jobless rate, saying the state was a victim of its own success.
Thousands of job vacancies, sometimes requiring little to no experience and offering giant paychecks, remain unfilled because the mining industry can't find ...
Albemarle Corp's proposed Kemerton lithium plant in the South West region in Western Australia has received its environmental approval from the state ...
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.
Recruitment specialists say mining companies, desperate for workers in remote areas, are again turning to FIFO workers from the eastern states, but are unlikely ...
The McGowan Government has launched the Western Australian Future Battery Industry Strategy, designed to aid the state's growth as a battery minerals ...
EPA chief says new regulations are needed to meet Paris targets, putting future LNG projects under threat.
AN alliance of energy giants is preparing to make Perth the *service* centre for Australia's giant LNG projects.
The Western Australian Government has announced the appointment of Rebecca Brown as Chief Executive of Tourism WA and Director General of the ...
Mining, resources and energy has been cited in Seek's latest employment report as the "star performer" for new job ad growth in 2018, with listings up 32 per ...
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 ...
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.
Just two years after revealing its grand vision to turn the West Australian town of Albany into a world-famous renewable energy hub by harnessing the power of ...
A Western Australia solar farm, WA's largest, now under way at Merredin, is big enough to power 42000 homes. Solar battery storage will also be added.
An additional 150,000 Western Australian jobs will be created, as part of the 'Our Priorities: Sharing Prosperity' program announced today by Premier Mark ...
The boss of a recruitment firm says he is considering shutting his labour hire business because he believes the industry model is broken and feels ethically ...
Scotland's National Health *Service* hit headlines for allegedly "poaching" WA nurses in a recruitment drive this week. But the topic of graduate program ...
The mining, resources and energy industry has joined healthcare and IT as one of the top three drivers of job ad growth in Australia. Recruitment portal SEEK ...