Customs brokers are retiring in great numbers with few young trainees coming up through the ranks,despite an attractive starting salary.
Brighton has the most CEOs,Kew has the most GPs,the CBD has the most waiters and Tarneit has the most truck drivers. Find out where the most people who do the same job as you live in our tour of Melbourne’s worker tribes.
Australia has the lowest benefits for the short-term unemployed among 34 countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Just over two weeks before the federal budget,the Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee has again urged the government to provide more help to those struggling the most.
Even on the average rental household income of $103,805 a year,more and more people are struggling to find an affordable rental in the current market.
Of the top 10 communities to receive assistance,seven are in federal electorates held by either the LNP,the Nationals or the Liberal Party.
The major political parties revealed different plans to help job seekers this week. Economists say reducing disincentives to work should be key.
Labor’s full caucus took time out of a busy parliamentary session to watch Mary Doyle explain how her pathway to the nation’s capital had been “riddled with challenges”.
Energy assistance will be a major component of the package and will offer households on low incomes several hundred dollars to help pay their bills.
The treasurer said the stronger outlook would include “upward revisions to surplus” before he corrected himself.
The budget will include a suite of measures to make life easier for people doing it tough,but the treasurer’s narrative keeps being interrupted by other plot lines.