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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