Aussies who ditched 9-5 admit brutal reality
It sounds like a dream to most 9-5 workers, but there’s a tough hidden reality behind the way more than 1.6 million Aussies are working right now.
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$95k homebuyer boost announced for Aus
Carrying a big student debt and can’t get a mortgage? See how much more you could borrow under new changes.
‘Stupid’: CEOs ’monumentally out of touch’
A union boss has come out swinging following reports some of Australia’s richest people want to cut penalty rates.
‘Failing’: Huge group of Aussies left behind
Two-thirds of a massive Australian cohort are living in poverty, going without enough food or medicine to keep a roof over their head.
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Grim reality for female tradies laid bare
Australia has slim hopes of building the houses we desperately need if 10 per cent of female tradies keep being harassed out of the construction industry.
‘Remarkable man’: Top chef dies suddenly
An award-winning chef is being remembered as “the kind of person you meet once in a lifetime” after he died suddenly while overseas.
Gross comment that almost made 23yo quit
A single sentence has summed up the treatment that women still face in the construction industry.
Grim stat shows even rent out of reach
The housing market has produced a ‘national scandal’ where few rentals are affordable for the nurses, educators and construction workers.
Why Aussies are feeling inflation shock
Australia’s central bank has pointed to a theory as to why our high inflation feels like it is dragging on, and on, and on and on.
Just 1 in 100 rentals affordable for workers
The housing market has produced a ‘national scandal’ where few rentals are affordable for the nurses, educators and construction workers Australia relies on.
Insane thing Gen Z is doing in job interviews
A career coach has revealed the work trend she believes has gone “too far”, with managers seeing a rise in one ridiculous act when interviewing Gen Z candidates.
Call for Aus to bring in Finnish speeding rule
Flat-rate speeding fines “criminalise poverty”, with Australian research making a bold call for an overhaul.
CEO trolled after revealing new job title
Ryan Salame was living the high life just a couple of years ago but his LinkedIn update this week shows he’s hit rock bottom.
If you work in these jobs, get out right now
The rapid development of artificial intelligence has thrust a number of jobs on an endangered species list, with experts saying they could soon cease to exist.
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