ViewJobs has launched Australia’s brand new employment marketplace for regional employment and the first dedicated digital platform connecting job-seekers to career and lifestyle opportunities in Australia’s regions. Lead image: Lewis Romano and Jarrah Kammoora. ViewJob, the online job listings platform with its intuitive, Airbnb-style map-based search functionality aims to address the growing demand for skilled...
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Fears Elon Musk’s ‘tantrum’ sackings could hit Australian EV drivers
Tesla has rolled out more than 50,000 Supercharger stations globally, including more than 80 in Australia. The news, coupled with the collapse last month of major charging infrastructure producer Tritium, has observers spooked. Will Jameson, formerly Tesla’s lead of strategic charging programs, wrote on X, formerly Twitter: “What this means for the charging network …...
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Closing Gap By Investing In Jobs And Housing
The Albanese Labor Government is making a landmark investment in new remote jobs and housing as part of the 2024-25 Budget. These practical measures will accelerate progress to close the gap. Labor’s Remote Jobs and Economic Development Program is on track to start in the second half of 2024, and is all about self-determination through...
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Australian workers unphased by AI’s impact on jobs, survey reveals
New survey data from job site Indeed shows that 91% of Australian workers are not afraid of the impact that artificial intelligence (AI) could have on their jobs, even though they understand that the skills required for their roles could change significantly over the next five years. The data, which seeks to challenge prevalent narratives...
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Skipping meals and working 80-hour weeks: Australians are holding down multiple jobs to ease cost-of-living pressures
In short: More than 970,000 Australians now work multiple jobs to make ends meet. The rate of people taking on more than one job was higher for women compared with men, according to the ABS. What’s next? One think tank is calling for changes to be made to the way people with more than one job are...
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Newsquawk Week Ahead: Highlights include US CPI, US Retail Sales, UK and Australian Jobs | Forexlive
Week Ahead 13th-17th May: Sat: Chinese Inflation (Apr) Mon: Eurogroup Meeting, New Zealand Inflation Forecasts (Q2) Tue: OPEC MOMR, German Final CPI (Apr), UK Jobs Report (Apr/Mar), German ZEW Survey (May), US PPI (Apr) Wed: PBoC MLF, Riksbank Minutes, IEA OMR, Australian Wage Price Index (Q1), Swedish CPIF (Apr), EZ Flash GDP/Employment (Q1) and Industrial...
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Filipino workers on temporary visas live in tiny rural towns away from their children to take care of our elderly
Mae Montecalvo is crying as she finishes a video call with her two young daughters, aged two and five. She is surrounded by toys they have never played with as she sits in a share house, in a New South Wales country town nearly 6,000 kilometres from where they are: in the Philippines with their grandparents....
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Australian Jobs Market Surges Despite Economic Slowdown: Challenges and Opportunities Ahead
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...
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Australia’s Market Leaps Forward On US Jobs Weakness
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...
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Beneath Roads – Event Information | ScreenHub Australia – Film & Television Jobs, News, Reviews & Screen Industry Data
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...
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Australia’s jobs market has cracked
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...
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Aussie beach town offering a $450k job with free rent and a new 4WD
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...