Aussie job vacancies flame out
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Via the ABS. Interesting that the decline was led by WA and TAS. The housing bust is yet to bite on the east coast.
Seasonally adjusted estimates for August 2022:
- Total job vacancies were 470,900, a decrease of 2.1% from May 2022.
- Private sector vacancies were 425,500, a decrease of 3.3% from May 2022.
- Public sector vacancies were 45,300, an increase of 10.5% from May 2022.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific's leading geo-politics and economics portal.
He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.
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