‘Achilles heel’: Unemployment holding back QLD recovery

It predicts Queensland will have the highest unemployment of any state or territory this financial year of 7.5 per cent. The Deloitte Access Economics quarterly business outlook further warns against the farming and coal bans being enforced by China forcing a desperate scramble to find new markets for goods.

But DAE senior economist Chris Richardson said there would need to be “heavy policy lifting” to repair the economy in Queensland, while border closures during the…



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