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Data centres are frequently criticised for devouring land and power while offering few long-term jobs once construction wraps up.

AI could destroy us. Too late now. We’re up to our eyeballs in it

AI is promising an economic and medical nirvana. But from Gandalf to people watching new data centres in their communities, fear of AI is growing.

  • Shane Wright

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AI will disrupt the nation’s jobs market - but the early signs are muted.

The AI jobs apocalypse hasn’t landed in Australia – yet

New research into AI shows that it has yet to hit Australia’s jobs market. But data centre construction means it may be about to.

  • Shane Wright
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Jobseeker services to get first overhaul in 30 years

The one-size-fits-all scheme will be replaced by three streams as Labor grapples with the best way to assist the country’s growing cohort of long-term unemployed people.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Inflation is on track to hit a three-year high amid warnings the economy will slow and unemployment climb.

Grim warning for workers with inflation set to hit a three-year high

Inflation is on track to hit a three-year high as a huge rise in petrol prices hits the national economy, putting jobs and growth at risk.

  • Shane Wright
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Meta.

Australian staff on edge as Meta slashes 8000 jobs

Meta is laying off about 10 per cent of its workforce, as it ramps up spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure and highly paid AI-experts.

  • David Swan
Then treasurer Paul Keating talking about the recession we ‘had to have’ in 1990. It remains the last, deep recession experienced by this country.

Recessions mean economic carnage. Many Australians think the country is already in one

Jim Chalmers’ budget test is just getting tougher. More than three-quarters of people believe Australia will enter recession, or is already there.

  • Shane Wright
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Publican Arthur Laundy (right) bought the remaining 50 per cent share of the hotels he co-owned with Fraser Short in 2023.

‘I gave everything’: Feuding Sydney pub barons face underpayment claims

Dozens of employees were allegedly underpaid at hospitality venues co-owned by Arthur Laundy and Fraser Short, according to a leaked audit.

  • Eryk Bagshaw
Workplace Relations Minister Amanda Rishworth said the recommendation was crucial for lower paid workers.

Labor pushes real-wage increase for millions of workers despite inflation fears

The federal government has requested the increase in its annual submission to the Fair Work Commission, but does not go as far as the country’s biggest union.

  • Nick Newling
The report found that online platforms are “major vectors of hate, particularly for those aged under 35”.

Young Australians are despairing. I decided to find out why

Young people don’t have unrealistic expectations of life, but they’re not being helped by government measures which end up causing them harm.

  • Parnell Palme McGuinness
Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

‘We will make hard decisions’: Chalmers says expect a tough budget

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has warned the pace at which the economy can grow without inflation pressures has dropped, with the coming budget to reveal a substantial slowdown.

  • Shane Wright and Natassia Chrysanthos