Unemployment rate improves as March end to JobKeeper confirmed

Thursday January 21, 2021

The national unemployment rate unexpectedly dropped to 6.6 per cent in December as Australia’s recovery from recession gathered pace.

Queensland’s jobless rate remains the highest in the country Photo: ABC

Australia Bureau of Statistics figures released on Thursday showed a further 50,000 people found work in December and largely full-time positions.

But despite most of the new jobs being created in Queensland, the state continued to unemployment rate of 7.5 per cent, the highest in the nation.

Economists had forecast Australia’s jobless rate to ease to…

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