Key Points
- The federal government says the list of jobs where skills shortages are rife has almost doubled in the last year. The skills priority list has grown from 153 to 286 occupations.
- Parts of outback New South Wales are preparing for more severe weather as a surface trough brings widespread rain and thunderstorms across the inland
- The annual inflation rate in the Philippines rose to 6.9 percent in September
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