Predicted job losses from the rise of the robots vary widely. So rather than worry about robots taking over, we should learn to work with them and use them as intelligent tools.
Up to 40% of recent immigrants in Australia are overeducated, making it hard for them to find suitable employment.
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Traditional car manufacturing may have gone from Australia with a loss of jobs, but one senior figure in the motor industry sees a potential for new jobs thanks to driverless cars.
The latest data shows a big jump in jobs, but construction is slowing.
The idea that automation and robotics will lead to huge job losses is wrong. Big business likes the sweat of cheap labour too much.
The 1994 Employment Minister Simon Crean even had to be briefed by officials on the content of the policy when Working Nation was released.
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Cabinet papers released today by the National Archives show Working Nation began as a rational exercise but was soon overtaken by a desire to make the policy everything to everyone.
The ‘Closing the Gap’ initiative has existed since 2006, but the statistics show the gap is growing.
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To Close the Gap, Indigenous Australians are the experts. Indigenous organisations are more likely to achieve outcomes because they understand local issues and have ‘skin in the game’.
The Working Time Directive is designed to stop this kind of behaviour.
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The Working Time Directive enshrines legal rights to rest periods, paid holidays and a maximum 48-hour working week.
Fewer government welfare recipients due to higher than expected employment growth provides a slightly stronger budget outlook for the Turnbull government as they head into 2018.
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Unlike other age groups, 16- to 24-year-olds haven’t recovered the job losses they suffered during the Great Recession. Spurring investment and growth are key to getting them back to work.
Demand is growing for aged care workers in regional areas and so policymakers should be focused on this rather than manufacturing jobs.
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Growth in high-skilled jobs is highest in Australian cities and for the country its low-skilled jobs.
Governments face disruption by the private sector and social unrest unless they embrace new technology. Here, Prime Minster Justin Trudeau meets a robot in Edmonton last May as others look on.
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Thousands of American women moved west to take advantage of wartime employment opportunities during WWII. For some, this version of the California dream was temporary; for others, it lasted a lifetime.
Jobs have been a constant theme of the Labor government’s campaign for a second term in Queensland.
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Queensland Labor claimed it has ‘created 122,500 jobs – more than four times the number of jobs created under the Newman-Nicholls government’. Is that right? We asked the experts.
High level interpersonal and problem solving skills are what will make you employable in a digital world.
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Despite the hype about STEM skills, research shows interpersonal, problem-solving and entrepreneurial skills will make you more employable in the 21st century.