Australia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell from 5.6% in November to 5.5% in December, a better performance than other advanced economies. 7,300 of the new jobs were full-time and 27,900 were part-time.
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Australian Job Prospects Improving
Total job advertisements experienced their strongest monthly growth rate since May 2007, but the level of job ads remains 22.6% lower than a year ago. A substantial 99.5k jobs were added to the labour market in just the last three months, 71k of them full-time.