However, the requirement to wear face masks will remain in some circumstances – like visiting a hospital, care facility or any other indoor space.

The outsourced skilled labour in India is 25 to 50 per cent cheaper than in Australia.

Every year, between 5% and 9% of Australian students do not meet year-level expectations in literacy or numeracy.

Some lecturers fear that such a strategy on the university's part will compromise their rigorous academic standards just to keep fee-paying domestic and international students.

"One can only make three claims over a period of six months, except for some extraordinary cases."

For high-profile occupations like nursing, student demand usually mirrors the labour market.

Do books and stories really matter when a deadly disease is sweeping the globe?

Allowing increased transmission will impact the economy by resulting in higher numbers of people affected by long COVID.

More than 17,000 nurses and midwives will be recruited and trained as part of a massive hiring and upskilling initiative.

To many, this scenario probably sounds like a dream lifestyle, especially for those of us who spent large chunks of the past two years under lockdown. But is the shift to remote regional work as idyllic as it seems? What kinds of people decided to become e-changers? And what have their experiences been?