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Via Roy Morgan.
In April 2025, Australian ‘real’ unemployment increased 176,000 to 1,780,000 (up 1% to 11.2% of the workforce) with more people joining the workforce and overall employment dropping in April.
The expansion in the workforce was the main driver of the increase in unemployment with 156,000 people joining the workforce lifting the number of Australians in the workforce to 15,946,000 (69.4% of Australians aged 14+). In addition, overall employment was down slightly by 20,000 to 14,166,000.
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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.