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Cost-of-living, unaffordable advice fuels financial stress: Surveys

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2025
... reduce extremely high levels of financial stress amongst people with the least," she said. "The priority now should be to grow jobs and the incomes of people struggling after a decade of stagnation in living standards. Low unemployment is an opportunity ...

Cbus increases insurance premiums

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2025
... death cover rise $0.10 to $2.20 and TPD up $0.15 to $3.04. The changes are slightly less for those who work in non-manual jobs. For a member aged 25 to 34, death cover will rise by $0.03 to $0.63 per week and TPD will be up $0.04 to $0.75. Members aged ...

Australia tops list for financial services job growth

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2025
... upswing in professional job vacancies, led by the financial services sector in March, according to the Robert Walters Global Jobs Index. The research found that professional white-collar vacancies in financial services in Australia jumped by 34% compared ...

Coalition's super on PPL plan 'deeply worrying'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2025
... tried to understand working women or cared about what support families need to be able to run their lives, and to hold down jobs - because if they did, making it harder to get childcare would not be the solution". "Neither is taking paid super off paid ...

Work from home saves employees $5308

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2025
... previously faced barriers to on-site work are more likely to have a job now because they can work from home." Australia's jobs market has been surprisingly strong since the pandemic, driven by factors including worker shortages, cost-of-living pressures ...

Top ART executives depart in reshuffle

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025
... revamp of its investment team. The superannuation giant's plan to simplify the investment process has seen several key jobs change hands and the exit of two long-serving senior executives. Greg Barnes, head of public markets, and Herbert Chang, head ...

Aware Super spends $1.6bn on Australia's 'largest' intermodal terminal

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025
... to the Melbourne Intermodal and Industrial Exchange (MIIX) precinct to support expanded capacity and the creation of 3000 jobs. MIIX, which includes the nation's first privately funded open-access intermodal freight terminal, is owned and managed by ...

Dutton doubles down on 'super for housing' policy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025
... Australian manufacturing. "Dutton continues the legacy of Liberal leaders showing nothing but disdain for Australians having good jobs in our manufacturing industry by pledging to dismantle Future Made in Australia," it said. Dutton also said he would ...

Labor accelerates defence spending

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... continues to sell AUKUS and the building of nuclear-powered submarines as a bonanza for employment that will create around 20,000 jobs in the Australian Defence Force and public sector. These include tradies, operators, technicians, engineers, scientists ...

Budget deficit to balloon to $42.1bn

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... non-compete clauses for most workers. Non-competes are holding too many Australians back from switching to better, higher-paying jobs. "The Productivity Commission estimates this reform could lift productivity, reduce inflation and improve GDP by $5 ...