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Employment & Workplace Lower North Coast 

Apprenticeships at Mid Coast Council

14 October 202014 October 2020 Press

Seventeen apprentice, trainee, and graduate positions. MidCoast Council will offer 17 new apprenticeship, traineeship, and graduate opportunities at Taree, Forster, Tuncurry, Gloucester and Bootawa to start January 2021. Council is advertising the new positions on their website and other employment

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Employment & Workplace 

Aged JobSeekers Concerning

3 October 20203 October 2020 Press

PBO report signals older women at risk of long-term unemployment without Government action. A Parliamentary Budget Office report shows that before the COVID-19 crisis, older women were increasingly recipients of JobSeeker (then Newstart). The report found that in 2019 half

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Charity & Non-profit Employment & Workplace 

Brotherhood Call to Save JobSeeker

10 September 202010 September 2020 Press

How Australians can take action to stop cuts to JobSeeker (aka NewStart). With 15 days until the Federal Government is planning to slash the JobSeeker supplement by $300 a fortnight, social justice agency the Brotherhood of St. Laurence (BSL) is

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UoN Employment & Workplace Science & Research 

Pandemic Job Loss Mapped

19 May 2020 Press

Researchers map emerging disadvantage in Australia due to COVID-19 job loss. A new report reveals the areas that are most at risk of COVID-19 related job loss, with researchers pinpointing more than 100 locations of emerging disadvantage in Australia. The

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Employment & Workplace Heritage & Historical Society & People 

Saviour of Cities No Union Thug

11 May 2020 Editor

Our cities owe much of their surviving heritage to Jack Mundey. By James Lesh, University of Melbourne. Jack Mundey, who died aged 90 on Sunday (10th May 2020), was a pioneer of the Australian heritage movement. As well as contributing

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Education & Childcare UoN Employment & Workplace 

Upskill Online at UoN

4 May 2020 Press

Building the recovery workforce through short courses. The University of Newcastle offers short courses for displaced workers to upskill or reskill in the post COVID-19 recovery. A suite of graduate certificate courses will be available 11 May 2020, across growth

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Coalfields Employment & Workplace 

Cessnock Jobs Network Formalised

9 March 202024 August 2020 Press

Jobs and training partnership forged in the Cessnock region. Cessnock Jobs and Training Network team members meeting at Cessnock Council. Cessnock City Council’s Employment and Training Network aims at a sustainable workforce and local businesses to employ more staff. The

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Employment & Workplace Government 

Jobs as Hornets Prep for US

5 March 2020 Press

Workers at RAAF Base Williamtown will service and prepare up to 46 retired F/A-18 Classic Hornet aircraft that will be sold to air combat training company Air USA. The Classic Hornet aircraft will be used to provide training services to

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Employment & Workplace 

BP Downfall Worker Reinstated

29 February 202010 September 2020 Throsby

Worker sacked over Downfall joke reinstated by Full Bench of Fair Work. The Fair Work Commission has re-instated a Western Australian BP oil refinery technician sacked for sharing a popular parody video of the film Downfall. The full bench of

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Education & Childcare Employment & Workplace Government Opinion 

TAFE Review Must Restore Funding and Courses

26 February 202029 October 2020 Editor

NSW Teachers Federation President Angelo Gavrielatos said the union would take the opportunity presented by the TAFE review to highlight the failed privatisation policies of successive state and federal governments. TAFE budgets have been slashed resulting in the loss of

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Coalfields Employment & Workplace 

Cessnock Jobs Website

18 December 201924 August 2020 Press

New Hunter Valley Jobs website launches. Acting Economic Development Manager Rhiannon Stevens and Economic Development Officer Brad Sangster demonstrate the new jobs portal to Paul Cousins CEO of Cessnock Leagues Club. Cessnock City Council is urging businesses to assist in

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Employment & Workplace Science & Research 

“Prosperity’s Children” Don’t Have Jobs

16 December 2019 Press

Stubborn rate of youth unemployment hits 265,000 young Australians. Nearly one in five unemployed young people have been out of work for a year or more, according to a disturbing new report. This equates to more than 46,000 Australian jobseekers

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Education & Childcare UNSW Employment & Workplace Science & Research 

Lack of Local Training and Skills Will Doom Australia

30 November 2019 Press

Homegrown solutions to technology skills shortage. Compounding the current critical shortage of high-tech qualified workers, Australian-based businesses and workers educated and trained in high-tech skills are heading overseas where they are better supported, the survey finds. The majority of Australians

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Hunter Valley Employment & Workplace Government Society & People 

ATO Reveals Top Earners

29 March 2019 Editor

Map further below show Hunter region income mapped for year 2014-15. The Australian Taxation Office (ATO)  annual Taxation Statistics report for 2016–17 gives an overview of 13.9 million individuals and 970,000 companies. In New South Wales, the profession with the

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Employment & Workplace Transport Port & Shipping 

More Australian Shipping Slips Away

28 March 2019 Press

Port Kembla: Crew, emergency workers, farewell the Iron Chieftain. The Iron Chieftain left Port Kembla on Wednesday, 27 March, under tow to its final resting place in Turkey. Pictured ~ Fire-damaged ore carrier Iron Chieftain leaves Port Kembla under tow

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Medical & healthcare Employment & Workplace 

Working Hours Constraint Impairs ‘Night Owls’

24 March 201925 August 2020 Press

People who go to bed late and then get up later have significantly lower functional connectivity in the brain, slower reaction times, and may struggle with a standard 9-5 work day compared to ‘early risers’, according to a new international

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Employment & Workplace Society & People 

Hunter Valley Young Miss 28 years of “Jobson Groath”

3 March 2019 Press

Anti-poverty group’s report smashes the ‘avocado’ generation myth . An estimated 75,300 young people aged 15 to 24 were unemployed in NSW in December 2018. Hunter region youth unemployment levels remain stubbornly high at over 13%. Across Australia the youth

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Employment & Workplace 

Councils Continue Apprentice Tradition

17 January 2019 Press

A Lake Macquarie City Council training program addressing Australia’s skills shortage crisis will be expanded, after four years of success. Pictured ~ Rachael Neale is a former Merewether High School student who successfully applied for a traineeship in fleet management

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Employment & Workplace Port & Shipping 

Australian Shipping Era Ends

15 January 2019 Press

BHP and Bluescope Steel will lay off 80 Australian seafarers and retire the remaining two Australian-manned bulk carriers from service, the Maritime Union of Australia said. MV Lowlands Brilliance (pictured) and Mariloula will cease Australian coastal iron ore trade and

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Mining Employment & Workplace 

Government inquiry calls for halt to casualisation in mining

4 December 201829 August 2020 Press

A federal parliamentary committee has called for government action to stem rampant casualisation of full-time mining jobs in order to improve the industry’s social and economic return to the regional communities that support it. The ‘Keep it in the regions’

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Manufacturing Employment & Workplace 

Volgren Tomago bus factory opens

14 March 2010 Press

A bus-building facility offering a potential 250 jobs opened at Tomago today [15 March 2010]. [Pictured: Brisbane Transport bus on Volgren chassis] Volgren Australia unveiled its body-building factory at the Hunter Industrial Estate at Tomago one year after construction began.

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Newy’s New Annual Arts Festival
Newcastle Event & Venue 

Newy’s New Annual Arts Festival

8 February 2021 Press

Arts Festival makes Newcastle the place to visit this month. An intimate art gallery performance by a renowned Australian musician, an augmented reality experience celebrating indigenous culture, and a discussion on women in leadership with Australia’s first female Prime Minister,

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Renewal of Gas Exploration Permits off Newcastle
Energy & Renewables NSW aka In the News Opinion 

Renewal of Gas Exploration Permits off Newcastle

12 February 202112 February 2021 Press

Gas companies making plans to drill offshore from Newcastle. Opponents fear the PEP 11 gas exploration permit off the coasts of Sydney and Newcastle will be renewed today by Federal Resources Minister Keith Pitt. The joint venture companies currently holding

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La Niña Peaks But Effects Continue
Weather 

La Niña Peaks But Effects Continue

3 February 2021 Press

The 2020–21 La Niña is likely to have peaked with respect to atmospheric and oceanic patterns in the tropical Pacific. However impacts associated with La Niña, such as above average rainfall in eastern and northern Australia, are expected to persist

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Shipping Cartel Fined
Port & Shipping 

Shipping Cartel Fined

6 February 20216 February 2021 Press

Shipping cartel fines now total $83.5 million after WWO conviction. Norwegian-based global shipping company Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ocean AS (WWO) has been convicted of criminal cartel conduct and ordered by the Federal Court to pay a fine of $24 million, in

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Agriculture Faces Profitable Year
Agriculture 

Agriculture Faces Profitable Year

4 February 2021 Press

Australian agriculture looking to profitable year ahead – industry outlook. Australia’s agricultural sector is set to enjoy an overall profitable year ahead – underpinned by high commodity prices, positive seasonal conditions and low interest rates, and despite expected continuing trade

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Pioneeer Solar Energy Researcher Honoured
Physics & Energy 

Pioneeer Solar Energy Researcher Honoured

31 January 2021 Press

Australian father of photovoltaics awarded prestigious 2021 Japan Prize. By Stefanie Menezes UNSW Sydney solar expert Martin Green has been honoured with the Japan Prize for transforming the photovoltaics industry. Professor Martin Green. Photo ~ University of NSW. Professor Martin

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Give Back Our Data
Internet 

Give Back Our Data

8 February 2021 Press

Tim Berners-Lee’s plan to save the internet: give us back control of our data. By Pieter Verdegem Senior Lecturer, School of Media and Communication, University of Westminster Releasing his creation for free 30 years ago, the inventor of the world wide

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Not a mirage, Actually a Mirage
Upper Hunter Heritage & Historical 

Not a mirage, Actually a Mirage

5 February 20215 February 2021 Press

Two jet fighter planes – a Macchi and a Mirage – are making their home at Scone Regional Airport. Restored by volunteers. they will become part of the Warbird Visitor Attraction. The Mirage A3-44 will travel by road from the

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