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Australia past 'peak tightness' in labour market, economists say

Rising unemployment and falling job vacancies may be signalling a turning point in Australia's labour market, economists say.

ABC News · May 18, 2023

Rafael Nadal to miss French Open due to injury, says 2024 likely to be last year of his career

Rafael Nadal will miss the French Open after failing to regain full fitness from a hip injury suffered at the Australian Open in January, the 14-time Roland Garros winner, adding 2024 could be the final year of his career.

ABC News · May 18, 2023

Teenage boy stabbed to death near train station in Melbourne

Homicide squad detectives launch an investigation after a 16-year-old boy is stabbed to death near a train station in Melbourne's west.

ABC News · May 18, 2023

Rex Airlines slams Whyalla City Council, cancels regional centre's flights to Adelaide

The regional carrier says the council is trying to force it into paying a security charge it cannot afford. Whyalla City Council says the federal government must continue to subsidise that cost.

ABC News · May 18, 2023

​​​​​​​Papua New Guinea's prime minister says US security pact still a work in progress, reveals visit by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken

James Marape takes a call from US President Joe Biden mid press conference and confirms US Secretary of State Antony Blinken would be coming to Port Moresby instead of the president, who cancelled his trip.

ABC News · May 18, 2023

El Niño and La Niña have become more extreme and frequent because of climate change, study finds

CSIRO has found greenhouse gas emissions have likely been making El Niño and La Niña events more frequent and extreme since the 1960s. Up until now little was known about the role it played.

ABC News · May 18, 2023

NSW man who caused car crash that killed 56-year-old sentenced to more than 10 years in jail

A New South Wales man who killed another driver in a head-on collision during a 188-kilometre-per-hour police pursuit is sentenced to more than 10 years in jail.

ABC News · May 18, 2023

RFS captain tells Black Summer bushfire inquest back-burn was a 'foregone conclusion'

A Blue Mountains fire brigade captain tells a NSW coronial inquest the decision to conduct a back-burn that later broke containment lines was a "foregone conclusion" by the time she found about it.

ABC News · May 18, 2023

Maternity services on Tasmania's north-west coast to return to public hands from December

Shayla Marshall says giving birth at Tasmania's North West Private Hospital was a lonely and traumatising experience that left her feeling like she "didn't want to be a mum".

ABC News · May 18, 2023

Students say vaping still an issue at school while state, federal government crackdowns continue

For 17-year-old Tyrone, vaping became such an issue in his South Australian high school that he felt the need to tell the country about it on ABC's Q+A.

ABC News · May 18, 2023