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Workers say minimum wage increase is a good start
Workers say, while they welcome the 3% rise in the minimum wage, it is still not enough with rising costs.
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The Bambigi Swim School started in 2018 and has since secured $21,600 in NSW Government funding.
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The Victorian Government expects about a dozen people to use the laws in the first year
Premier Daniel Andrews says more than 100 doctors have already undertaken intensive specialist training ahead of Victoria's voluntary assisted dying laws taking effect on June 19.
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Labor says Government must explain Paladin contract
Anthony Albanese says the Government must explain how the contract for Paladin to operate Manus Island was awarded.
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Country football helping to bridge racial divide, three years after Kalgoorlie race riots
A country football league is moving on from race riots in its community and embracing the AFL's Indigenous round with all five clubs in the small competition to wear specially-designed, Indigenous-themed guernseys.
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A metal detector, a hat, and plenty of water is it really that easy to strike gold?
The days of stubbing your toe on a chunk of gold may be over, but seasoned prospectors say there's still plenty to be found.
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'Predatory' Gold Coast payday lender accused of targeting vulnerable Aboriginal communities
Hundreds of Indigenous people living in communities across the West Australian desert are being signed up to loans by a Gold Coast-based lender they can neither afford nor understand, advocacy groups say.
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Rare gold specimens unearthed at WA mine compared to 'finding a needle in a haystack'
King Midas has left his mark again on the same Western Australian gold mine which made global headlines last year after producing some of the biggest gold specimens ever seen.
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Emu gold mine disaster still leaves hearts broken three decades after fiance's death
The fiance of a 27-year-old man killed in one of Australia's worst mining disasters is still heartbroken, saying the "pain is still there" on the 30th anniversary of his death.
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Australian gold prices reach all-time high amid global uncertainty
Australian gold prices reached an all-time high this week but experts are warning investors not to get too excited.
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Gruyere the big cheese as analysts warn Australia's lack of new gold discoveries threatens future output
Australia's biggest new gold mine, the $621 million Gruyere project in WA's Great Victoria Desert, pours its first gold bar as the precious metal continues to trade near record highs but the mood in the industry is not all good.
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Kalgoorlie's 'Pink House' the last brothel standing on Hay Street's historic red-light district
The closure of an historic brothel has provided another nail in the coffin for one of Australia's most famous red-light districts, which has operated illegally for more than a century.
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Gold miner fined $150,000 over death of worker, the third fatality in six-year span at Central Norseman mine
The owners of the mothballed Central Norseman gold mine in WA have been fined over the death of a worker fatally crushed in 2016.
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'It's time': End of an era as brothel madam puts historic Kalgoorlie bordello on the market
Seven years after closing the doors of her famous Kalgoorlie brothel, madam Mary-Anne Kenworthy has listed the property for sale, marking the end of an era for the historic red-light district.
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Golden girls of Kalgoorlie's Super Pit represent changing face of Australian mining
When Kalgoorlie's Super Pit gold mine started 30 years ago, there was not a single female employee. Today, the workforce is 30 per cent women, nearly double the mining industry average.
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Aboriginal communities sue Federal Government over 'racially discriminatory' work-for-the-dole scheme
Remote WA Aboriginal communities are suing the Federal Government in a landmark action over its controversial work-for-the-dole scheme which they argue is unlawful.
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Gold is booming but mining towns are failing to cash in as miners' wages fly out
Business is booming for the gold mining industry as the price of the precious metal sets new benchmarks almost every day, but not everyone in mining towns like Kalgoorlie is taking a shine to the recent "mini gold rush".
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Kalgoorlie-Boulder council votes to give staff access to ratepayer funds for defamation cases
A council in regional Western Australia is the latest to join the list of local governments around the country to allow ratepayer money to fund defamation action against members of the public.
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Gold thief wanted 'memento' of time working at rich WA mine
A 22-year-old geology student pleads guilty to stealing from one of Australia's biggest gold mines, saying he wanted a "memento" to motivate him to finish his degree.
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Mother accused of wilfully murdering baby boy in Kambalda 24 years ago was also a victim of crime
A 38-year-old woman accused of murdering her newborn baby 24 years ago in the toilets of a remote WA caravan park is allowed to return home to Victoria to await the outcome of the case.