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West tops state for jobless youth

Ten suburbs across Maribyrnong and Hobsons Bay have the highest youth unemployment in the state, topping even the number of jobless in the Northern...
Joe Tanti. Picture: Damjan Janevski

Bleak Christmas for Williamstown’s shipbuilders

Seaholme’s Joe Tanti will finish up at Williamstown’s shipyard next week. But he fears more for the impact on other Hobsons Bay’s businesses than he...

200 more jobs cut at Williamstown naval dockyard

Williamstown’s shipyard on Thursday announced another 200 jobs would be cut before Christmas unless it is awarded new work contracts from the federal government. BAE...

BAE Systems confirms shipyard job losses

BAE Systems has axed 125 jobs at its Williamstown shipyard in the strongest sign yet the ship-building industry will exit the state. Australia’s biggest defence...

Uniform factory workers left hanging by a thread

The federal government is being asked to intervene as more than 200 inner-west workers appear likely to lose their jobs within weeks. Eighty workers at...

Williamstown shipyard job woes deepen

About 150 job losses are expected at Williamstown’s naval shipyard in the wake of the federal government’s announcement of a $40 billion continuous shipbuilding...

Council budgets for childcare redundancies

Hobsons Bay council has budgeted $1million for redundancies as it outsources the management of Altona Meadows and Altona North early- learning centres to a...

Food Bank helps avoid hard choices

Tough economic times are forcing more Victorians to choose between heating or eating this winter. Single dad Tom, who didn’t want to reveal his surname,...

‘Duty of care’ call for Braybrook

Braybrook is one of Victoria’s worst areas for long-term unemployment. A new report commissioned by Jesuit Social Services uncovers chronic levels of unemployment in the...

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