Media Release - Australia’s unemployment rate remains one of the lowest in the industrialised world
Date published :
12
July
2012
Labour force figures released today by the ABS show that
Australia still has one of the best unemployment rates in the
world. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased by 0.1
percentage points to 5.2 per cent in June, but remains well below
most other advanced economies and stands in stark contrast to the
stubbornly high rate of 8.2 per cent in the US and 11.1 per cent in
the Euro area.
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