Archive for January, 2009

The total number of job ads in Australia is down almost 19 percent in one year. Newspaper ads were particularly badly hurt by the deteriorating economy, falling almost 43 percent in the last year. Internet job ads are down by more than 20 percent in the past six months.

2008 saw Australia’s population rise at its fastest rate since 1989. While Victoria had the largest number of new arrivals, people moving within Australia favoured Queensland and Western Australia over the other states.