workforce shortages

Let’s face it, we all want to know how much money people have, and a Facebook post has exposed how much average Aussies actually have in their savings accounts. An anonymous member posted in a women’s support group and explained that she…

The most significant review of Australia’s defence force and capabilities in decades has laid bare a significant budget struggle, with suggestions multi-billion dollar programs may need to be wound back and others scrapped. The Defence…

Essential workers are spending about two thirds of their income on housing on average as the housing affordability crisis prices them out of their communities and exacerbates staff shortages across Australia.New analysis has found early…

There are fears that the risk of Australia falling into recession has risen with early signs pointing to potential financial doom for the country as the strain of soaring inflation and cost of living pressures show no signs of easing.While…

One of Australia’s largest childcare providers G8 is hitting parents with its third fee hike – slugging them with up to a 17 per cent increase in prices in just the space of a year – as the cost of living batters families hard.Gold…

Melbourne may have suffered a significant pandemic-prompted mass exodus, but new figures show it will become Australia’s largest city within a decade. New data from the Australian government’s centre for population shows Melbourne’s…

More young Aussies will be encouraged to become tradies as part of a billion-dollar push in Tuesday’s federal budget.Treasurer Jim Chalmers said Labor was seeking to address a long-term decline in trade apprenticeship numbers, adding skills…