Australian Men Who Earn Less Than Their Women Partners Are 35% More Likely to Commit Domestic Violence
“The role of the male breadwinner is so central to masculinity in this country.”
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Men who earn less than their women partners are 35% more likely to commit physical and sexual violence against their breadwinning spouse, according to an unparalleled decade-long Australian review.
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Job vacancies continue to rise: Australia
Job vacancies in Australia increased by 14 per cent between November 2020 and February 2021, according to new seasonally adjusted figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
Bjorn Jarvis, head of Labour Statistics at the ABS, said job vacancies were 27 per cent higher than 12 months earlier in February 2020, just before the start of the pandemic.
“There were 289,000 job vacancies in February 2021, 61,000 more than a year earlier,” Mr Jarvis said.
“This reflected the pace of recovery in labour demand over the second half of 2020 and early 2021, and labour shortages in some industries.
“When we asked businesses experiencing labour shortages the reasons for this, more than usual noted difficulty in filling vacancies for lower paid jobs.
Australia s booming property market: The graph that explains buyers FOMO crisis
The headline figures are startling: month-on-month the price of a median Aussie home is rising at its fastest rate in 32 years.
There are now entire generations â this author included â who in their lifetimes have never seen the chance of purchasing the Aussie dream slip away as rapidly.
But what s contributing to the electric market where crowds of potential bidders are willing to stand in a once-in-100-year rainstorm to bid for a Sydney semi?
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The ratio of sales to new listings is tracking about 1.1, implying for every new listing added to the market, 1.1 homes are sold.(CoreLogic)
Melbourne median house price up $60,000 since year began
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Melbourne’s median house price has risen $60,000 since the new year began as property values defy a global pandemic, leaving investors and first-home buyers battling it out at auctions.
Property prices are surging in capital cities across the nation with Melbourne values up 2.4 per cent in March, led by a house price rise of 2.6 per cent to a new median of $859,097 on CoreLogic data. At the start of the year Melbourne’s median house price was $799,980.
Job vacancies have jumped 13.7 per cent in the three months leading to February
The rise means that job vacancies are 27 per cent higher than a year earlier
Treasury estimates up to 150,000 jobs will be lost due to the end of JobKeeper
It is a positive that jobs are opening up at a time when unemployment is high
Manufacturing is one area where employment growth has surged