Possum Comitatus charts the latest ABS Labour Force Survey, with a state-by-state, gender and age breakdown of the data.
Unemployment figures
Forget the pundits, this jobless data is positive, rates will rise
Forget the media reports; the Australian economy has created over 65,000 jobs in the last two months: pencil in a December 1 rate rise from the RBA.
There’s good news and also good news on jobs
There’s mixed — but mostly good — news in today’s unemployment data. Unemployment remained steady in trend terms, but underemployment is up across most age groups, and there was a small fall in hours worked.
Glenn Stevens vindicated by jobless plunge
Reserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens has developed a reputation for taking what seems to be tough decisions at the wrong time. But the latest job figures have proved him right. Again.
It looks awfully like unemployment is peaking
Not even Glenn Stevens in his wildest dreams thought vindication would come so quickly and comprehensively as it did in today’s jobless data.
Job ads surge should tip RBA’s hand
The chances of an interest rate rise coming either tomorrow or in November have risen with three job ads surveys all revealing a strengthening in demand for labour.
Rudd agenda backed by jobless stats
The Australian economy has again shown its resilience with the unemployment rate last month steady on 5.8%, where it has been since June.
Four million reasons to doubt the jobless data
For the first time the ABS has released a monthly underemployment estimate, with total hours worked dropping for the 13th month in a row. So the economic narrative continues, good news but things remain fragile.
Job ads spike: could unemployment be on the turn?
There are signs the labour market is changing, with job ads registered by the ANZ Bank and the Olivier employment group both showing the first upturn in more than a year.
If you think Australia’s working, ask someone who isn’t … much
The news on the jobs front of the Australian economy is mixed. While Rudd’s stimulus package has had an effect on unemployment, it masks a significant rise in underemployment.
Unemployment rates: too good to be true?
It’s employers who are keeping the unemployment rate down, but under-employment levels are rising. What difference does it make? Ross Gittins explains.
Just 800 more jobless for July
Despite gloomy expectations, Australia’s jobless rate remained steady at 5.8% last month, with a sharp, 32,000 rise in the number of people who found work.
Unemployment by electorate
Possum Comitatus gets wonky with the latest jobless figures, breaking down unemployment by electorate in a handy series of colour-coded maps.
Jobs down, again: turning point or statistical white noise?
The new rise in Australia’s unemployment could mean employers’ strategy of using “casualistion” as a buffer against falling demand has run its course and the job-shedding will pick up, writes Stephen Long.
The good economic news just keeps on coming
This is an economy coping remarkably well with a collapse in its terms of trade and a collapse in business lending.
ANZ job figures just in: 6.7% fall in job ads in June
The latest ANZ job figures out this morning will have analysts getting toey about the June labour force figures, due out on Thursday.
Good news on the unemployment front
So, unemployment doesn’t seem to have grown much this month – hardly the sky is falling nonsense we’ve been seeing from the sandwich board wearers at News Ltd, says Possum.
Political snippets: The government got it right on unemployment
Richard Farmer’s unemployment special with bonus graphs.
Our 5.7% jobless figure looks much nicer than the US 9.4%
The one point to be made with certainty from today’s jobless figures is that the Australian labour market is not as stricken by recession as America’s, or Europe’s, or Japan’s.
Fair suck of the sav: jobs, probability and the ABS
Remember last month the howls of incredulity when ABS unemployment figures were released showing a fall from 5.7 to 5.4%? Well, says Possum, the outrage was all for a 0.03% difference in the raw results’ accuracy!
Political snippets: Any poll at all will do for The Australian
Poll manipulation: it’s a national sport for Australia’s media, says Richard Farmer, and why Aussie journos are jealous of their British counterparts.
8.5% unemployed and nothing like Working Nation
The budget projects that unemployment in Australia will reach 8.5 per cent next year and there’s precious little for them.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Unpaid journalistic internships: rort or opportunity?
Crikey readers debate the role of unpaid internships at The Punch, the controversial ABS unemployment figures and the Melbourne-Sydney divide.
Unexpected unemployment drop: what the pundits say
The announcement of unemployment figures sliding from 5.7 to 5.4% yesterday gave the media another chance to call an end to the recession. Or not.
