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The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) today released its labour force report for April, which registered another 0.2% fall in the official unemployment rate to 5.5% but off a 0.2% decrease in the number of jobs:
Unemployment rate continues to fall.
Full-time jobs rose by 33,800 in April whereas part-time jobs fell by 64,400:
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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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