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Jobs boost for Melton

The unemployment rate in Melton has improved dramatically in the past 12 months according to new figures, but it is still almost three times...

Study focuses on mature-age jobseekers

A new study will investigate the problems mature-age Melton and Moorabool jobseekers face when looking for work. The Brotherhood of St Laurence will interview residents...

Melton and Moorabool youth feel jobs pain

Youth unemployment in Melbourne's outer west is the highest in Victoria. Figures released on March 15 reveal that the outer western suburbs are under the...

Training needed to address Melton unemployment

No jobs – at least none residents are qualified to do – and a dearth of training explains Melton’s 7.6 per cent unemployment rate, peak...

Melton Waves cleaners sacked without notice

Five cleaners at Melton Waves leisure centre turned up for work only to be told they’d been sacked. Australian Services Union organiser Melissa Wainwright said...

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,...

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