Unemployment rate drops to 3.9 percent
Australia’s unemployment rate has dipped below 4 percent as a “higher than usual” number of unemployed people found work in November.
Th latest Australian Bureau
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Spike in disputes prompts construction watchdog call
Master Builders Australia has called for a return of a building and construction industry watchdog, following the release of statistics on recent industrial
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Healthy diets can reduce severity of chronic pain
Adopting a healthy diet has been found to reduce chronic pain, regardless of the person’s body weight.
New research from the University of South Australia found
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Christmas warning on festive fraud frenzy
Consumers have been warned to be alert to scams over Christmas as a festive fraud frenzy grips the marketplace.
The NGM Group, which operates the Greater Bank and
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Wham and Mariah recapture ghosts of Christmas past
Two old Christmas favourites have returned to the charts decades after their first release.
Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You is back at number seven and
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Lifespan of EV batteries longer than expected
Electric vehicle batteries have been found to last 40 percent longer than previously thought under normal driving conditions.
Stanford University researchers said the
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Overseas Aussies face barriers to returning home
Most Australians living overseas plan to return home but a relatively small number have a plan for this due to career and cost-of-living challenges.
The Advance Global
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‘Talking’ dogs show astounding word skills
Doc Neeson from Aussie rock band The Angels was right, when he sang “The Dogs are Talking,” with a US study showing that dogs can “talk” and are able to
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Readers wary of artificial intelligence ‘journalism’
Consumers are wary of news produced through artificial intelligence, preferring content attributed to a real human.
Research from the University of Kansas, released this
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Target to address housing crisis ‘out of reach’
The State Government’s new dwellings target “remains out of reach” and regulatory reforms are necessary to address the issue, a peak construction group
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