Resurrecting the nation's reputation in the eyes of overseas parents could help Jane Coole plug holes in her roster sheet. The Esperance restaurant owner battled crippling workforce shortages throughout the pandemic, which forced her to close during peak

The new aged care minister will begin looking at the prospect of using migration to help fill tens of thousands of vacancies across the sector as both unions and providers call for permanent residency for imported staff.

One of the stranger sights during the election campaign was both sides promising to create lots of new jobs even as businesses across a range of industries complained they couldn’t find enough workers.

Women are giving birth in emergency departments and new mothers are prematurely discharging themselves from hospital, as a worsening shortage of midwives hampers access to maternity ward beds.

The new Labor government has made it clear it wants to change Australia’s trajectory on several fronts, and already has an agenda stacked with policies and reforms.

During the tech boom of the 1990s, companies would lure new employees with promises of office pool tables, beanbags and video games.

Construction has started on a 580-kilometre, $460 million pipeline in Western Australia that will take natural gas from the Perth basin out to resources projects in the state's Goldfields.

Fernanda* was one of around 80 international students underpaid by a cleaning company that went into liquidation and set up under a new name a short time later.

A major investment by one of the largest food manufacturers in Australia and New Zealand is creating a jobs boost in Ballarat. George Weston Foods will invest $132.9 million to build a new flour mill in the Ballarat West Employment Zone.

The unemployment rate remained at 3.9 per cent in April after the Australian Bureau of Statistics revised down the March result from 4 per cent.

Strengthening international education and introducing targeted visa settings will be critical to ensuring Australia has access to the global talent pool and skilled workforce essential to meet the demands of new and emerging critical industries.

No one left behind: Why Australia should lock in full employment shows that all workers suffer when unemployment is high, but the most vulnerable workers suffer the most. And the costs of failing to reach full employment increase over time.

New research from the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) has found the COVID pandemic has exacerbated concerns about housing affordability and access to services for people living in regional Australia.

For some time, our federal politicians have argued that wages will grow when unemployment is lower, and they will moderate when unemployment is higher.

Australian graduates heading into the technology sector are setting themselves up for a massive payday, new analysis has found.Companies including the likes of Amazon, Google and Canva are paying salaries of up to $350,000 for new graduates.

With ambitious aspirations to transform Melbourne’s north, La Trobe University has agreed to partner with developer Plenary to build its $5 billion University City of the Future Plan project.

NSW education authorities are investigating how they can endorse high school teachers as subject specialists even if they do not have university qualifications in that discipline amid shortages of qualified teachers, particularly in maths and science.

The Victorian government will look overseas to recruit thousands of healthcare workers that have been funded for in Tuesday’s state budget.

COVID-19 travel restrictions brought migration to Australia to a virtual standstill, and over the course of the pandemic about 500,000 temporary migrants have left our shores. Now many Australian businesses are screaming out for more workers.

Ahead of the upcoming election, Labor has promised a rigorous review of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), focused on spending and administration, should it win office.