‘There’s nothing in western Sydney at the moment’: Lockdown crushes job creation | MattWadeSMH
Job creation in Sydney has been slashed by the lockdown as new online employment postings in parts of the city’s west and south-west plunge more than 60 per cent.
The biggest declines were in the city’s outer south-west , outer west and Blue Mountains and Blacktown . Each one of those regions includes “areas of concern” which have experienced the harshest restrictions. Tamara Jubran, a 23-year-old who lives at Merrylands, has been job searching “non-stop” for two months.
Economist and Accenture managing director Andrew Charlton said the findings showed the strong recovery in employment across Sydney during the first half of this year had been snuffed out by the lockdowns.
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