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| UpdatedAbout 80 people are out of work after a barge caught fire in the Spencer Gulf on Wednesday with no certainty about when they can return, the maritime union says.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, unemployment, community-and-society, whyalla-5600, sa
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The Hunter Valley Tourist Centre is normally a hub for wine tasting and getting directions, but it is now offering career routes for the region's unemployed youth thanks to an innovative employment program.
Topics: unemployment, government-and-politics, cessnock-2325
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| UpdatedWA's Acting Premier says she will have to "brush up" on her figures after copping criticism for failing to correctly identify the state's unemployment rate, debt or deficit.
Topics: state-parliament, budget, unemployment, elections, wa
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More than 1,000 job opportunities will be made available to veterans thanks to a new program run by Soldier On.
Topics: veterans, army, defence-forces, unemployment, canberra-2600
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Job advertisements ease in December, highlighting a slowdown in Australia's employment market over the second half of last year.
Topics: economic-trends, unemployment, australia
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The robot takeover has begun in Japan, where an insurance company is replacing 34 human workers with artificial intelligence in the hope of increasing productivity by 30 per cent.
Topics: computers-and-technology, unemployment, japan
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| UpdatedThe health and social assistance sector remains the nation's biggest employer, followed by retail and construction.
Topics: work, economic-trends, unemployment, australia, wa
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| UpdatedFinland becomes the first country in Europe to pay its unemployed citizens a basic monthly income in a trial that aims to cut government red tape, reduce poverty and boost employment.
Topics: unemployment, welfare, government-and-politics, finland
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A community leader in far-west New South Wales has backed criticism of an Indigenous work-for-the-dole scheme she says is blocking jobseekers from finding employment.
Topics: unemployment, welfare, indigenous-policy, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, wilcannia-2836
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| UpdatedUnemployed people in remote parts of Australia are being fined for not attending activities like hygiene classes and 3D printing training, documents released to Federal Parliament reveal.
Topics: community-development, unemployment, federal-government, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, australia
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| UpdatedThe government of Papua New Guinea is being accused of sitting on its hands in the face of a worsening skills shortage.
Topics: unemployment, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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Hitting out at his own government, Tasmanian Liberal Senator Eric Abetz says the budgetary decision to scrap the Green Army, young job seekers who work on environmental projects, is "unpalatable" and cuts could have been made to foreign aid instead.
Topics: government-and-politics, environment, unemployment, community-and-society, tas, australia
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| UpdatedWestern Australia's peak business group joins the Opposition in condemning a sharp increase in the state's unemployment rate, describing it as an "unacceptable" result that warrants immediate reform.
Topics: unemployment, states-and-territories, federal---state-issues, economic-trends, work, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedAustralia's unemployment rate edges up from 5.6 to 5.7 per cent, despite the creation of nearly 40,000 full-time jobs last month.
Topics: economic-trends, money-and-monetary-policy, unemployment, australia
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Gregory Cannon has a few weeks work on a harvest truck at Walgett; the truck is air-conditioned and he reckons he's living the dream.
Topics: crop-harvesting, grain, unemployment, walgett-2832, tambar-springs-2381
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Topics: grain, agricultural-crops, unemployment, community-development, walgett-2832, tambar-springs-2381
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| UpdatedOne of the country's largest training providers Careers Australia has axed about 150 staff as it closes a call centre in Western Sydney and one on Queensland's Gold Coast.
Topics: careers, education-industry, university-and-further-education, unemployment, business-economics-and-finance, government-and-politics, parramatta-2150, southport-4215
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The Queensland Opposition dismisses the Government's plan to spend a $1 billion budget windfall on regional jobs, urging Treasurer Curtis Pitt to instead use the extra revenue to pay down debt.
Topics: budget, unemployment, regional-development, brisbane-4000, bundaberg-4670, cairns-4870, longreach-4730, mackay-4740, maroochydore-4558, mount-isa-4825, rockhampton-4700, toowoomba-4350, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedMost participants in the remote work-for-the-dole Community Development Programme were fined for breaching the conditions of the scheme the last financial year new figures reveal.
Topics: federal-government, unemployment, welfare, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, australia, nt
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An Aboriginal employment service in the Kimberley says the best Indigenous employment program in years will be lost if the Green Army initiative is axed as reported.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, adult-education, unemployment, broome-6725
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Job seekers are being trained to build wild dog exclusion fences in western Queensland.
Topics: pest-management, wool, rural, livestock, sheep-production, unemployment, government-and-politics, local-government, states-and-territories, community-and-society, work, muttaburra-4732, longreach-4730
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Students from Adelaide's northern suburbs are picking up tools and renovating homes in a bid to improve their job prospects in a region where unemployment is rampant.
Topics: education, secondary, secondary-schools, schools, unemployment, community-and-society, apprenticeships, elizabeth-east-5112, elizabeth-5112, adelaide-5000, sa
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Truck automation at mining sites such as Adani's Carmichael coal mine will push jobs away from the coal face and into larger cities, a Queensland academic predicts.
Topics: coal, mining-industry, mining-rural, unemployment, regional-development, rockhampton-4700, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedLocals are being overlooked for jobs at a Geelong construction site because the contractor is using foreign workers on 457 visas, the manufacturing union claims.
Topics: manufacturing, unemployment, government-and-politics, federal-government, federal---state-issues, immigration, geelong-3220, australia
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There have been fiery scenes in Parliament's final Question Time before the state election, as Labor hammers the Government over WA having the highest unemployment rate in the nation.
Topics: state-parliament, community-and-society, unemployment, wa, perth-6000