Australia's manufacturing industry has recorded another month of decline, with a leading economic analysis laying bear the problems seen across the sector in 2024.

Australia's peak building and construction association has claimed that the industry needs another 130,000 workers to meet current demand, as workforce productivity continues to slump.

Shipbuilder Austal has announced that Austal USA has been awarded a $670 million (US$450 million) contract by General Dynamics Electric Boat for nuclear submarine module construction.

Australia's national unemployment rate remained steady in August at 4.2 per cent. The number of employed people grew by 47,500, and the number of unemployed people declined by 10,500, in seasonally adjusted terms.

​The Hon. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese MP has become the first sitting prime minister to visit Geoscience Australia – digging into Earth science and examining critical minerals firsthand.

​An extra 47,500 jobs have been created in the last month, with the Albanese Government continuing to oversee the largest increase in employment in a single parliamentary term in Australia's history.

The Federal Government has granted approval for the construction of a new solar farm in NSW that is set to generate enough energy to power 229,000 NSW homes.

The NSW Government will introduce a series of new measures to support NSW jobs and businesses and encourage the development of local industries, removing barriers to local growth.

Based on the Saturday afternoon crowd at Luke Ridden's trendy Gold Coast distillery it would be hard to tell his business was facing challenges.

Higher-density zones around train stations would double in size and extend further into Sydney's eastern suburbs and north shore, under a bold set of proposals sought by the premier to solve the state's housing crisis.