Employment by Region and Occupation — NERO — is a new experimental dataset developed by the National Skills Commission, a Commonwealth government agency.  NERO provides timely information on employment at detailed levels, including 355 occupations across 88 regions in Australia. Until now, data at this level of detail was only readily available once every five years

The Australian Geoscience Council is currently implementing a National Geotourism Strategy, launched on 7th April 2021 by AGC President David Cohen, and which is being designed to support the orderly development of major geotourism projects and activities in line with overseas trends and domestic regional development imperatives. Tourism Industry development benefits can be realised through the

The National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum in Leadville, Colorado, plays an important role in telling the story of mining and its role in ensuring modern society’s sustainability to the public, both within the USA and Internationally. Since 1987, the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum has been a national monument to the

This survey is designed to examine whether the improved employment conditions for geoscientists throughout Australia evident in the second half of 2020 have continued into the current year.  Geoscientist unemployment fell to just 4.5% nationally in the final quarter of 2020.  This was accompanied by a fall in the under-employment rate to 9.3%.  For the

Australia’s geoscientists benefitted from a sharp increase in employment opportunities in the final quarter of 2020 according to the latest AIG Australian geoscientist employment survey. Unemployment amongst professional geoscientists (geologists, geophysicists and allied Earth scientists) recommenced a downward trend after improvement in employment prospects stalled throughout the previous three quarters of the year. AIG President,

The AIG Board, at its October 2020 meeting approved a proposal to join the Australian Council of Professions (ACoP).

On 3 August 2020, Western Australia had the greatest number of geoscientist jobs advertised on seek.com were in Western Australia (24 of 29 advertised vacancies nationally).

The Australian Geoscience Council is offering a scholarship to provide financial support of $5000 per annum for a full-time student to finish their undergraduate degree.

The Australian Gender Equality Council (AGEC) have partnered with the University of Queensland and the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) to better understand the impact of COVID-19 on men’s and women’s careers. The purpose of this research project is to gain a clear understanding of the COVID-19 environment and its potential impact upon

Brisbane, 12th August 2020 Geoscientist employment in Australia improved in the second quarter of 2020.  Nationally, unemployment decreased to 8.6% from 10% in the March quarter, while underemployment also fell to 17.4% from 18.1% for the period. AIG President, Andrew Waltho, described the improvement as most welcome.  “The level of improvement observed in the survey results was small but defied