Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Australian unemployment rate stable despite COVID-19 outbreaks

CANBERRA – The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Thursday published labor force data for January and revealed that the jobless rate was stable at 4.2 percent, equalling December as the lowest rate since August 2008. However, the total number of hours worked by Australians fell by 8.8 percent, or 159 million hours, from December … Read more