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DFP Recruitment has released its mining and resources jobs index for February, which registered a large seasonally adjusted fall of 3.8% to 65.41, with vacancies down 30.80% nationally over the past year, but only 7.2% in the last 6 months and 4.7% over the last quarter.
February saw a massive 9.4% fall in permanent vacancies, but a 2.4% rise in temporary and contract job advertisements (see next chart).
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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.
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