Shipbuilder Austal has announced that Austal USA has been awarded a $670 million (US$450 million) contract by General Dynamics Electric Boat for nuclear submarine module construction.

Australia's national unemployment rate remained steady in August at 4.2 per cent. The number of employed people grew by 47,500, and the number of unemployed people declined by 10,500, in seasonally adjusted terms.

​The Hon. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese MP has become the first sitting prime minister to visit Geoscience Australia – digging into Earth science and examining critical minerals firsthand.

​An extra 47,500 jobs have been created in the last month, with the Albanese Government continuing to oversee the largest increase in employment in a single parliamentary term in Australia's history.

The Federal Government has granted approval for the construction of a new solar farm in NSW that is set to generate enough energy to power 229,000 NSW homes.

The NSW Government will introduce a series of new measures to support NSW jobs and businesses and encourage the development of local industries, removing barriers to local growth.

Based on the Saturday afternoon crowd at Luke Ridden's trendy Gold Coast distillery it would be hard to tell his business was facing challenges.

Higher-density zones around train stations would double in size and extend further into Sydney's eastern suburbs and north shore, under a bold set of proposals sought by the premier to solve the state's housing crisis.

Victoria's ambitious path to transition to a 95% renewable energy future by 2035, has been outlined in the recently released Cheaper, cleaner, renewable: Our plan for Victoria's Electricity Future plan.

Work has begun on the building of a giant four bay aircraft hangar in northern Adelaide to facilitate the specialist maintenance of the Australian Defence Force's Boeing 737 variant military aircraft.

A recovery in new home building is expected to take hold in medium sized Australian capital cities such as Perth, Brisbane and Adelaide, new forecasts suggest.

​Australia's real GDP increased by a small 0.2 per cent in the June quarter, taking the annual rate to just 1.0 per cent, according to figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Wednesday.

Additional rail and bus services and enhanced timetables will come into effect from tomorrow, Sunday 25 August 2024, in one of the biggest enhancements of public transport capacity the state has seen in years.

21 August 2024: The Australian economy is at a critical juncture. Two years of RBA interest rate hikes have helped contain price inflation, which is forecast to return to its target range of 2-3% by early 2025.

Australia’s labour market has seen significant changes since the pandemic, with notable progress in gender equality.

​Construction activity stagnates into mid-year, remaining at an elevated level. Q2: +0.1%qtr, 1.2%yr.

Even as inflation pushes the consumer price index higher and higher, there are some jobs where wages are growing even faster.

The ongoing NSW pattern book design competition open to Australian and international architects has attracted hundreds of entries, with the NSW government describing the response to the competition as "exceeding expectations."

​The Australian economy grew at one of its worst rates with unemployment expected to peak, according to a new report.

Catholic Health Australia has applauded the results of the first month of reporting on the federal government's 24/7 Registered Nursing requirements.