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Chisholm pledges Labor support for coal as Asian demand endures
Assistant Resources Minister Anthony Chisholm says coal will remain integral to regional energy security and steelmaking, although government forecasts point to increasingly divergent trajectories for Australia’s thermal and metallurgical coal exports. The Albanese Government has delivered one of its clearest recent assurances to Australia’s coal sector, with Assistant Minister for Resources Anthony Chisholm declaring that…
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Job mobility falls to 7.2 per cent as Australia’s post-pandemic churn recedes
Australia’s workforce has become less mobile, with the proportion of employed people changing employer or business falling to 7.2 per cent in the year to February 2026. New figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show just over one million employed Australians changed jobs during the period, compared with a mobility rate of 7.7 per cent in…
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Morocco pitches itself as Australia’s bridge to Africa at 50-year milestone
At Canberra’s Throne Day reception, Ambassador Wassane Zailachi called for a more ambitious commercial and strategic relationship, presenting Morocco’s industrial expansion and continental reach as a platform for deeper Australian engagement with Africa. Morocco has used the fiftieth anniversary of diplomatic relations with Australia to make a concerted case for a more expansive bilateral partnership,…