The jobless rate in Australia reaches a 12-year high. Official figures show that the unemployment rate in Australia reached a 12-year high of 6.4 percent in the month of January. The Australian Bureau of Statistics said on Thursday that the number of full-time employment had dropped by 28,100 last month. “The decrease in employment was driven by decreased full-time employment for both males (down... 

Australian hostage girls forced to display the ISIS terrorist flag. A police operation is underway at a café in the Australian city of Sydney, where hostages are being held by unknown Muslim ISIS attackers and a black Jihadist flag can be seen. It comes amid Australia’s backing of the US-led operation against the Islamic State. At least 40 hostages are believed to be held inside the café. There... 

New figures show that Australia’s unemployment rate relapsed to a decade-high of six percent in June. Data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Thursday showed a 0.1-percentage-point increase in the unemployment rate in June, matching the highest since July 2003. This is while economists had expected the jobless rate to stay at the revised rate of 5.9 percent in May, up from...