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| UpdatedAustralia's unemployment rate falls slightly to 5.7 per cent, as a surge in part-time jobs offsets a slump in full-time work.
Topics: economic-trends, unemployment, australia
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Tasmania is hopes to see more homegrown industrial designers to give the advanced manufacturing industry and competitive edge.
Topics: rural, unemployment, globalisation---economy, manufacturing, industrial-design
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Topics: rural, unemployment, globalisation---economy, manufacturing, industrial-design
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A Queensland labour contractor says employment programs need to be more flexible if they want to tackle the shortage of worker in rural industries.
Topics: rural, regional-development, education-industry, unemployment, rural-youth, beef-cattle, farm-labour, community-development, agricultural-policy, mount-isa-4825, maryborough-4650, boulia-4829
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Trainer Brendan Condon says more flexible agricultural training programs are needed to combat farm worker shortages.
Topics: rural, regional-development, education-industry, unemployment, rural-youth, beef-cattle, farm-labour, community-development, agricultural-policy, maryborough-4650, boulia-4829, mount-isa-4825
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| UpdatedA lack of full-time job prospects and an increasingly tense world has left a generation of Australia's young people feeling bleak about their future, writes business reporter Carrington Clarke.
Topics: unemployment, economic-trends, community-and-society, crime, law-crime-and-justice, terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, australia
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Nearly half of all Australian households earning less than $40,000 a year said they went backwards financially last year, and only a third of households reported income gains, according to a survey.
Topics: globalisation---economy, unemployment, australia
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| UpdatedThe end of the mining boom in Western Australia has seen house prices and rentals fall — but the poorest people in the state are yet to see any benefit.
Topics: poverty, housing, work, unemployment, perth-6000, wa
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Tasmanian Liberal senator Eric Abetz wants the Federal Government to cut 4,000 federal public service jobs to cut expenditure.
Topics: unemployment, community-and-society, public-sector, government-and-politics, tas
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| UpdatedAt least two car component manufacturers are set to close in the wake of Toyota's decision to cease manufacturing in Melbourne in October, meaning hundreds more jobs will be lost.
Topics: unemployment, manufacturing, altona-3018, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedAn increased focus on digital technologies is encouraging Queensland adults in regional and remote areas to seek out help with reading and writing, says a national not-for-profit.
Topics: access-to-education, adult-education, education, unemployment, rural-youth, community-and-society, regional, charities, distance-education, mount-isa-4825, qld
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Low job numbers and slow population growth remain key economic issues for Tasmania but there are also some promising economic signs, a Deloitte report says.
Topics: unemployment, economic-trends, states-and-territories, tas
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Topics: retail, unemployment, regional, regional-development, orange-2800
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Topics: retail, unemployment, regional, regional-development, orange-2800
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Topics: retail, regional, unemployment, regional-development, orange-2800
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Topics: retail, unemployment, regional, regional-development, orange-2800
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Topics: retail, unemployment, regional, regional-development, orange-2800
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Facing online sales and changing consumer culture, Myer employees in Orange, New South Wales, are preparing for the store's final days.
Topics: unemployment, history, regional, community-and-society, work, relationships, orange-2800, bathurst-2795
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A new Federal Government program is linking employers to discharged servicemen and women, helping veterans transition to civilian life and avoid unemployment.
Topics: veterans, defence-forces, unemployment, community-and-society, australia
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| UpdatedUnemployment rises to 5.8 per cent, despite the creation of 13,500 jobs last month, due to an increase in people looking for work.
Topics: economic-trends, unemployment, australia
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Topics: recycling-and-waste-management, unemployment, mackay-4740
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Topics: recycling-and-waste-management, unemployment, mackay-4740
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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