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| UpdatedThe tourism industry on the coast of Kenya is struggling, after high unemployment rates and terrorist attacks helped slash hundreds of millions of dollars from the country's GDP.
Topics: unemployment, terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, community-and-society, kenya
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| UpdatedUnemployment edges lower to 6.3 per cent, as 15,600 jobs are added and the proportion of people in or looking for work falls.
Topics: economic-trends, unemployment, money-and-monetary-policy, australia
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| UpdatedFairfax Media has unveiled a plan to seek 80 voluntary redundancies as it tries to revitalise its regional Victorian outlets and set them up to deal with increasing demand for online content.
Topics: print-media, information-and-communication, regional, unemployment, work, unions, vic, bendigo-3550, shepparton-3630, wodonga-3690, warrnambool-3280
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Bendigo's Mayor has described youth unemployment as a crisis for the central Victorian city.
Topics: unemployment, work, youth, local-government, bendigo-3550
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The union representing Australian Taxation Office (ATO) staff has questioned the logic behind moves to build a new tax office on the Central Coast, while others are being forced to close across the country.
Topics: tax, unemployment, unions, gosford-2250
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| UpdatedMost economists believe today's jobs data will dent consumer confidence, showing the unemployment rate remains elevated despite the creation of 15,000 new jobs during the month.
Topics: unemployment, community-and-society, business-economics-and-finance, australia
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| UpdatedSome of Melbourne's middle-class suburbs are being hit by rising unemployment, a Federal Government report finds.
Topics: state-parliament, states-and-territories, unemployment, ascot-vale-3032, broadmeadows-3047, doncaster-3108, dandenong-3175, corio-3214
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A widely-watched private survey shows job ads rising for the ninth straight month, but probably not by enough to stop unemployment edging up.
Topics: economic-trends, unemployment, australia
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| UpdatedNewcastle ship-builder Forgacs is being urged to tender for a new contract, in order to save hundreds of jobs as work on its air warfare destroyer project winds up.
Topics: manufacturing, defence-industry, unemployment, carrington-2294, newcastle-2300
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| UpdatedAn Australian first project, which offers a hub for people who are sleeping in their cars, is proving successful in helping tackle homelessness in Lake Macquarie.
Topics: homelessness, unemployment, charities, newcastle-2300
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Community leaders and health authorities have come together in south-west Queensland to look at how to improve outcomes for young people and build healthier towns.
Topics: youth, community-and-society, drugs-and-substance-abuse, unemployment, mental-health, work, charleville-4470, cunnamulla-4490, longreach-4730, mount-isa-4825, toowoomba-4350
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Management of the Bengalla coal mine in Muswellbrook believes its workforce and the community will welcome approval of an extension for the open cut.
Topics: mining-industry, mining-rural, coal, unemployment, muswellbrook-2333, newcastle-2300
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| UpdatedThousands of people march through Melbourne as part of nationwide protests against what they call an attack on workers' rights.
Topics: unions, activism-and-lobbying, unemployment, federal-government, federal-parliament, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedThe Greens and the Liberal Opposition stall the Back to Work Act, one of the first pieces of key legislation of the new Victorian Government.
Topics: state-parliament, parliament, unemployment, greens, liberals, melbourne-3000, parliament-house-3002
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Some unemployed Gympie residents are helping to repair the flood damaged Gympie Music Muster site in southern Queensland.
Topics: floods, community-and-society, unemployment, work, gympie-4570, maroochydore-4558, bundaberg-4670
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| UpdatedPeople living in the Indigenous community of Nauiyu face challenges from unemployment with few job prospects.
Topics: unemployment, aboriginal, daly-river-0822
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Telstra staff are expected to start leaving the Ballarat office in the coming weeks after the company revealed it was cutting jobs earlier this month.
Topics: work, telecommunications, unemployment, ballarat-3350
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| UpdatedThe Shoalhaven Paper Mill based at Bomaderry near Nowra on the state's south coast is set to close this year with the loss of 75 jobs.
Topics: manufacturing, unemployment, bomaderry-2541, nowra-2541, wollongong-2500
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The Shire of Broome in Western Australia's Kimberley says despite 15 workers being made redundant on Friday, there will not be a "dramatic" decrease in its services.
Topics: local-government, unemployment, work, programs-and-initiatives, broome-6725
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| UpdatedA Four Corners investigation reveals the Federal Government has clawed back more than $41 million worth of false claims by private employment agencies in just the past three years.
Topics: government-and-politics, public-sector, federal-government, welfare, unemployment, community-organisations, australia
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The Baw Baw Shire Council in south-east Victoria has rejected Australian Services Union claims that it is planning to sack 30 staff.
Topics: work, unemployment, local-government, unions, warragul-3820
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The Australian Services Union (ASU) says up to 17 Broome Shire workers could be made redundant in the coming days.
Topics: work, unemployment, local-government, unions, broome-6725
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| UpdatedThe member for Page Kevin Hogan is among those lobbying for some dole relief
Topics: welfare, unemployment, federal-parliament, regional, lismore-2480, grafton-2460, coffs-harbour-2450, port-macquarie-2444
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Topics: geology, unemployment, mining-industry, industry, cloncurry-4824
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Grafton's Big Rivers Timber is to be offered rate relief to help rebuild after last November's fire.
Topics: industrial-fires, timber, local-government, unemployment, grafton-2460, coffs-harbour-2450, port-macquarie-2444, lismore-2480