Workers in the private sector are still clocking robust pay growth but the pace has been gradually slowing over the past year, reflecting a softening jobs market. The latest Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show average private sector wages lifting 0.7 per cent in the June...
Ordinary Australians struggle to make ends meet while the richest enjoy billions in untaxed capital gains, a new report claims. The wealth of Australia’s richest 200 people almost tripled as a proportion of national gross domestic product over the past two decades, Australia Institute analysis of...
Australia has a “once-in-a-century opportunity” to lead the world’s green iron industry but could miss it if governments, mining firms and investors fail to take urgent action, a study has found. The 78-page report, released on Tuesday by independent think tank Climate Energy Finance, analysed the...
Australia will need to work fast to remodel its workforce for net-zero industries and other economic and strategic shifts, warns the head of the nation’s jobs and skills agency. As debate continued in parliament on the government’s signature Future Made in Australia policy, Jobs and Skills...
Keeping warm this winter could depend on the age of your home. Australia’s national science agency, the CSIRO, revealed newly built homes were more airtight on Tuesday after testing the air flow in more than 200 apartments and detached houses across five states and territories. But the...
Australians could continue to have their data stolen in record numbers unless action is taken to boost the nation’s cybersecurity workforce, a report warns. The call to action from security services firm StickmanCyber followed an analysis of Australian employment data showing the nation had fewer than...
Cancer. Heart disease. Pregnancy and fertility problems. Impaired learning. Mental illness. Debilitating infectious diseases. It’s a grim but incomplete list of the multitude of human health threats fossil fuels pose. But doctors fear Australians are yet to fully grasp what the ongoing use of coal, oil and...
A multi-billion dollar manufacturing boost will set up Australia’s economy for decades, the prime minister says. As debate continued in federal parliament on the government’s signature Future Made in Australia policy, Anthony Albanese said it would be the catalyst for investment not only at home but...
Australians are outliving people from other high-income English-speaking countries, a study suggests. People from Australia have a lower death rate for certain cancers and from heart and lung diseases, researchers say. They also have fewer deaths from drugs or alcohol. The study, published in the journal BMJ Open,...
Plans to raise the age from criminal responsibility beyond 12 in Victoria are being thrown into doubt. The state government is persisting with raising the age to 12 but has become reticent to reaffirm a previous pledge to lift it a second time as the state...