The Australian Defence Force recruitment has been opened up to some foreign citizens.
Australian permanent residents from New Zealand, UK, US and Canada (members of the so-called Five Eyes intelligence sharing network) are now eligible to apply to join the Australian Defence Forces (ADF).
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These are the Trend unemployment rates, quoted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, for the month of June in each year shown.
Seasonally adjusted rates are also available at the ABS website shown after this table.
Trend and Seasonally adjusted rates are slightly different.
According to the ABS, the June 2025 unemployment rate (Trend) for Australia increased to 4.2% from 4.1%.
This was an increase of 8,400 from 631,100 in May 2025, to 639,500 in June 2025.
The number employed increased from 14,614,900 in May 2025, to 14,637,800 in June 2025.
New Laws for Casual Workers in Australia.
Some Australians prefer casual employment as the wages are higher than a permanent employee. Normally 25% higher.
The Australian government is moving ahead with further employment reform that will force employers to offer casual workers who work regular hours a permanent job.
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According to the ABS, the June 2023 unemployment rate (Trend) for Australia remained at 3.5%.
This was a slight reduction from 507,000 in May 2023, down to 505,500 in June 2023.
The number employed increased to 14,045,800 from 14,006,800 in May 2023.
The Fair Work Ombudsman has recovered $404,721 in wages for 623 underpaid workers after investigating employers in Brisbane’s food precincts.
Fair Work Inspectors investigated 77 businesses across a range of suburbs, including Brisbane CBD, South Brisbane, Fortitude Valley and Sunnybank. They found 75 per cent of businesses had breached workplace … Read the rest
The Fair Work Ombudsman has commenced legal action against the former operators of a Vietnamese bakery in Melbourne.
Facing court are VUF Investments Pty Ltd, which formerly operated ‘Luke’s Bakery’ in Reservoir, and its sole director, Hoang Long Vu.
The regulator began an … Read the rest
The Fair Work Ombudsman recovered more than $532 million for 384,805 underpaid workers in 2021-22. This is a record sum of back-paid wages and entitlements for a record number of employees.
That is an overall average of about $1,380 per person.
The recoveries, detailed in the workplace regulator’s latest Annual … Read the rest
The average female median full time wage has ranged between 79.37% and 96.15% of the male median wage during 2021.
It has also changed from 85.76% in 2004, up to 89.55% in 2021.
Wage differences between Male and Female, might … Read the rest
Australian Median employee earnings increased by $50 (4.3%) between August 2020 and August 2021, to $1,200 per week.
The figure for Median wages differs from the often produced Average figure, and is commonly about 20% lower then the average.
The Median Figure is the … Read the rest
