They’ve smashed coronavirus numbers and they’re also winning at keeping unemployment at bay. How is this state doing it?
New ABS Labour Force data shows that Australia’s unemployment situation worsened in June as the pandemic continued.
But one state went the other way. As the next graph shows, Queensland was the only state to record an improvement in the unemployment rate between May and June. Amid economic mayhem, the sunshine state unemployment rate dropped from 7.8 per cent to 7.7 per cent.Queensland bucked the unemployment trend in June, dropping by 0.11 per cent. Picture: Supplied.How did they do it? Approximately 53,000 Queenslanders moved into jobs in the month of June, seasonally adjusted.
In Queensland in June the number of full-time workers fell slightly and the number of part time workers rose a lot. A similar pattern was seen in much of the country, as the next graph shows.It is not ideal to see a big rise in part time work, but underemployment in Queensland remains relatively controlled, at 11.2 per cent, below the rate in NSW and Victoria . If it can add more full time workers, that underemployment rate will fall.
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