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Thu 16 April 2015Australia's unemployment rate has fallen to 6.1 per cent, smashing economists' expectations.
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Thu 16 April 2015Lochlann Fanning is one of the unsung heroes at the Gracemere saleyards in central Queensland, keeping the yards clean and tidy. Read more
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Thu 16 April 2015Cattle saleyards can be a really dirty place.
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Thu 16 April 2015Australia's unemployment rate unexpectedly drops to 6.1 per cent as an estimated 37,700 jobs are added to the economy.
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Thu 16 April 2015Australia's unemployment rate unexpectedly drops to 6.1 per cent as an estimated 37,700 jobs were added to the economy.
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Thu 16 April 2015The unemployment rate is expected to have held steady at 6.3 per cent in March, with jobs growth keeping pace with an expanding population.
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Thu 16 April 2015The unemployment rate is expected to have held steady at 6.3 per cent in March, with jobs growth keeping pace with an expanding population.
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Thu 16 April 2015Economists are divided on whether official figures due out today will show Australia's unemployment rate has risen.
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Wed 15 April 2015ACT Health concedes its plan to remove nurses from Canberra's special schools probably required more investigation before its rollout.
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Wed 15 April 2015A mother who left her quadriplegic son in bushland for nearly a week so she could visit her boyfriend is facing charges of attempted murder, aggravated assault and kidnapping.
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Tue 14 April 2015An eight-year-old boy with cerebral palsy and his father are taking on Tasmania's iconic Overland Track to raise money for charity.
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Tue 14 April 2015Self-protection and a clubby atmosphere are alive and well in the disability sector.
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Tue 14 April 2015Western Australia has the country's weakest safeguards to protect people with a disability from abuse and there should be mandatory screening of support workers, former disability discrimination commissioner Graeme Innes says.
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Tue 14 April 2015The unemployment rate is expected to have held steady at 6.3 per cent in March, when the figures are released on Thursday.
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Mon 13 April 2015The unemployment rate is expected to have held steady at 6.3 per cent in March, when the figures are released on Thursday.
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Mon 13 April 2015The unemployment rate is expected to have held steady at 6.3 per cent in March, when the figures are released on Thursday.
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Sun 12 April 2015Futureproof your career by moving from me to we
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Sun 12 April 2015People moving in and out of temporary or insecure work are at a hightened risk of health problems, with new research revealing an "accumulation" effect of multiple spells of unemployment.
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Fri 10 April 2015People with disabilities have been found severely neglected, repeatedly raped, with broken bones and left humiliated in their own faeces for hours at a time, a Senate inquiry is told.
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Fri 10 April 2015People with disabilities have been found severely neglected, repeatedly raped, with broken bones and left humiliated in their own faeces for hours at a time, a Senate inquiry is told.
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Fri 10 April 2015People with disabilities have been found severely neglected, repeatedly raped, with broken bones and left humiliated in their own faeces for hours at a time, a Senate inquiry is told.
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Thu 9 April 2015
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Thu 9 April 2015Plans for new sports programs in Kingborough and Queensland are given a boost with Special Olympics Tasmania receiving a $2,500 donation from the Tasmania Police Charity Trust.
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Wed 8 April 2015A study finds older commuters are having trouble with automatic ticketing gates closing too quickly, kids' school bags taking up aisles, and a lack of bus and train shelters.
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Tue 7 April 2015A new program is set to help veterans transition back into civilian life with education, mentoring and employment assistance.
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Tue 7 April 2015Disability groups have backed calls for a broad inquiry into the education of children with disability, following revelations an autistic Canberra school student was confined in a cage-like structure.
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Mon 6 April 2015Disability groups have backed calls for a broad inquiry into the education of children with disability, following revelations an autistic Canberra school student was confined in a cage-like structure.
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Mon 6 April 2015Labor wants an inquiry into the eduction of children with a disability after reports that an autistic child was put in a cage to control him.
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Sun 5 April 2015The Federal Opposition pushes for a national inquiry into the education of children with a disability in schools following revelations a Canberra student with autism was held in a cage.
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Sun 5 April 2015The promised early rollout of the NDIS in Penrith and the Blue Mountains has been welcomed with some caution by families and service providers.
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Sun 5 April 2015Labor wants an inquiry into the eduction of children with a disability after reports that an autistic child was put in a cage to control him.
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Sat 4 April 2015Images obtained by SBS show what some schools use as so-called withdrawal areas for autistic children, as disability advocates such practices are not uncommon.
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Fri 3 April 2015Images obtained by SBS show what some schools use as so-called withdrawal areas for autistic children, as disability advocates such practices are not uncommon.
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Fri 3 April 2015
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Fri 3 April 2015An incident in which a boy with autism was placed inside a cage at a Canberra primary school is just one example of a more ubiquitous problem, the peak body for children with a disability says.
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Fri 3 April 2015Children in classrooms being locked away. Coming home from school with bruises from being physically restrained.
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Thu 2 April 2015Young people with special needs in Ballarat are reminding people on Autism Awareness Day to see the person, not the disability.
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Thu 2 April 2015Check out our Indigenous Apprenticeships Programme.
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Wed 1 April 2015Revelations that the co-pilot flying the Germanwings plane that crashed in the French Alps told his employer he had depression highlight the importance of employers addressing mental illness at work.
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Tue 31 March 2015A blind West Australian tenpin bowler aims for gold in the sport's world championship for the visually impaired in South Korea.
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Tue 31 March 2015Performing an abortion on a girl in state care without her knowledge can never be in her best interests, a disabilities advocate says, after it emerged the NT Government sought advice on such a matter.
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Mon 30 March 2015ACT disability providers are spending thousands of dollars to prepare for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, but fear service prices have been set too low jeopardising quality.
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Mon 30 March 2015Northern Territory's Department of Children and Families sought advice about forcing an abortion on a 17-year-old girl with a cognitive impairment.
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Mon 30 March 2015Two new laws in South Australia will offer better protection from sexual exploitation for people with an intellectual disability, Attorney-General John Rau says.
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Sun 29 March 2015A far north Queensland man has become the first quadriplegic Member of Parliament anywhere in Australia.
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Fri 27 March 2015The WA Government is under fire from within its own ranks after it cut funding to a committee it set up to boost employment and production in the Kwinana and Rockingham industrial strips.
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Thu 26 March 2015Disability advocates have slammed the organisers of a national disability conference after a speaker was carried onto the stage because it was not wheelchair accessible.
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Thu 26 March 2015A disabled speaker had to be lifted from her wheelchair onto the stage before she spoke at the National Disability Summit in Melbourne.
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Thu 26 March 2015Organisers of a national disability conference in Melbourne come under fire after a speaker had to be carried onto the stage because it was not wheelchair accessible.
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Thu 26 March 2015Speakers who use wheelchairs are carried onto a stage and the accessible toilet is used for storage at a national disability conference in Melbourne.
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