Australia's unemployment rate recovered to 6.8 per cent in August despite measures to limit the spread of coronavirus weighing on businesses | swrighteconomy JennieDuke
More than 110,000 jobs were created across Australia in August, delivering the nation a surprise fall in unemployment even as Victoria went into coronavirus lockdown.
Of the jobs created, 74,800 were part-time positions. And despite the large jump in jobs, total hours worked only lifted by 0.1 per cent.There were huge falls in jobless rates in many areas. The Northern Territory's jobless rate fell to 4.2 per cent from 7.5 per cent, in Western Australia it fell to 7 per cent from 8.3 per cent while in Queensland it went to 7.5 per cent from 8.8 per cent.In NSW, the nation's biggest jobs market, the jobless rate dropped to 6.7 per cent from 7.
The bureau's head of labour statistics, Bjorn Jarvis, said there had not been a substantial change in the participation rate, which measures those in work or looking for it.
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