Workers are facing the worst unemployment crisis in 26 years but the true number of households facing the Centrelink queue will be unclear for at least another month
shows it believes the jobless rate, which edged down to 5.1 per cent in February, will reach 10 per cent in the June quarter. That would be the highest since April 1994, when Australia was still recovering from the 1990-91 recession.
Labor's assistant Treasury spokesman, Andrew Leigh, said the crisis was fast-moving and the government should do more to report real-time data.
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