Category: Jobs

Australia’s job market is defying economic headwinds, with an anticipated surge in employment numbers set to outpace previous forecasts. The latest data from Treasury paints a robust picture, projecting nearly 14.4 million Australians to be employed by mid-year, reflecting a notable increase of 105,000 from earlier estimates. This unexpected growth underscores the resilience of the...

What’s going on here? Driven by weak US jobs data, Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 index saw a modest rise of 0.4% to 7,755.00, boosting confidence across Australia’s financial, mining, and energy sectors. What does this mean? All major sectors of the market contributed to this upward trend. Financial stocks ticked up 0.4%, with the Big Four...

Freedom, heartache and exploitation – what does the road on screen tell us about the Australian Identity? The road movie is central to Australian cinema. Whether it’s the Ford Falcon hooning down the highway in Mad Max or hoofs pounding the highlands in The Man from Snowy River, traversing the country reflects a sense of adventure and national...

I spoke with Clinton Maynard of Radio 2GB on Thursday morning about the softening economic indicators, including the dramatic deterioration of the labour market. Edited Transcript: On Wednesday, Seek released their monthly labour market report. That is, the number of job ads, which is effectively employers demand for workers, and also the number of applications...

A regional healthcare provider is getting creative – and generous – when it comes to luring doctors out of cities. A job advertisement currently up on Seek is pitching the perks to GPs for a position up for grabs in Bremer Bay, south-east of Perth in Western Australia. As well as a salary of up...

Australian dollar’s surge amid US employment woes The Australian Dollar (AUD) has seen a four-day increase driven by positive market sentiment in response to disappointing US employment figures and a hopeful forecast from the Reserve Bank of Russia (RBA). This surge is due to the RBA’s decision to maintain the 12-year cash rate of 4.35%,...

Add to this the increasing pressures facing all workers in the construction industry, including new procurement and contracting models, and it seems like a recipe for trouble. But up until now the perception has been just that. Despite much concern and discussion, a mountain of anecdotal evidence, and a lot of harrowing stories, there have...

Screen Australia has confirmed funding for nine online projects, which includes web series being developed for Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and Instagram. ‘A harried single mum juggling school pickup and disposing of a corpse, aspiring young players on the cusp of AFL glory, and the space-bound mob of Mt Jorj navigating a galaxy far, far away‘...

Independent choreographer Melanie Lane is among those stretching to make ends meet, relying on a fellowship and a residency for work. With as few as 16 full-time contemporary company dance positions on offer in Australia and most positions project-based, Lane said many emerging and mid-career dancers were “working second, third and fourth tier jobs”. Playwright,...

China’s Geely looks set to return to Australia. Technically, the Chinese giant already has a presence here through Lotus, Polestar and Volvo, which it owns. It also has its Zeekr electric vehicle (EV) brand coming in the second half of 2024, and has previously confirmed Lynk & Co for 2025. But in a job posting...