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One occupation outnumbers all others across Brisbane.

Occupation maps: The most common job in every Brisbane suburb revealed

While one job outnumbers all others across Brisbane, data shows that people of certain occupations have carved out distinct territories across the city.

  • Craig Butt, Marissa Calligeros and Angus Delaney

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RBA inflation jobs

Surprise 3.9 per cent unemployment rate erodes rate cut chance

Anthony Albanese is hoping for interest rate cuts before the 2025 election. But a strong jobs market makes a rate cut decision tougher for the RBA.

  • Shane Wright and Millie Muroi
Workplace lawyer Josh Bornstein at the Royal Oak Hotel.

Opinions might offend, but this lawyer argues they shouldn’t cost someone their job

The social media pile-on is today’s baying mob, where algorithms reward “Colosseum-style” justice. Josh Bornstein says employers have become moral arbiters and control too much of our lives.

  • Kieran Rooney
Russian expat Lena Fomichëva, 21, works two hospitality jobs in Sydney.

Many Gen Zs are working multiple jobs. Are they missing out on their 20s?

New data shows more people under 25 are working multiple jobs. But at what cost?

  • Lauren Ironmonger and Alyssa Talakovski

Bosses want to kill off working from home. There’s just one problem with that

There’s nothing “nonsense” about the changing way we work – or the economic bonus it brings – even if some senior business figures don’t want to believe it.

  • Matt Wade
Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock says unemployment is still too low to be consistent with steady inflation, but a growing number of economists disagree.

Reserve Bank accused of getting it wrong on rates – again

Unemployment has been steady for months as inflation has fallen, but the Reserve believes the job market is still too strong. The bank may be wrong.

  • Shane Wright
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Chatime Australia CEO Carlos Antonius; with Chatime managing director and co-founder Chen “Charlley” Zhao.

‘Ignorance and inattention’: Bubble tea giant Chatime fined for wage scandal

The bubble tea chain and its managing director Chen “Charlley” Zhao have been penalised for ripping off 152 workers in 2016.

  • Jessica Yun
Manufacturing jobs are expected to shrink.

How can jobs and joblessness both be going up?

Unemployment in Australia has stayed unusually low, but what do the other signs of our jobs market tell us?

  • Millie Muroi
Service NSW, the agency set up by the Coalition as a one-stop shop for government services is facing hundreds of job cuts

‘Shortsighted’: NSW government blasted as hundreds of jobs cut

The agency set up by the former Coalition government in 2013 as a one-stop shop for government services has some 360 jobs earmarked for cuts.

  • Michael McGowan
AstraZeneca staff Penny George and Geraldine Murphy at the firm’s Sydney production plant.

Where Sydney’s million new jobs will come from

Five industries will drive Sydney’s economic growth – but there’s a catch.

  • Matt Wade

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