Australia's unemployment rate has fallen to 5.5 per cent with 13million people now in work despite the end of JobKeeper. Unemployment fell from an upwardly revised 5.7 per cent in March to 5.5 per cent last month, new Australian Bureau of Statistics labour force data has revealed. Australia's unemployment rate has fallen to 5.5 per cent with 13million people now in work despite the end of JobKeeper. Australia's two most populated states New South Wales and Victoria had a jobless rate of 5.5 per cent in April - in line with the national average. The provincial states had higher-than-average unemployment with Tasmania having a jobless rate of 6.2 per cent, compared with Queensland's 6.1 per cent and South Australia's 5.7 per cent.

Source: Daily Mail May 20, 2021 01:34 UTC