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Unemployment

July 2024

  • Office workers reflected in a Sydney CBD window

    Australia’s unemployment rate inches higher to 4.1% in June making a rate cut less likely

  • Greg Jericho

    Grogonomics
    Australian workers’ living standards have been destroyed – and there is little good news ahead

    Greg Jericho

June 2024

  • people crossing street in Sydney

    Australia’s unemployment rate dips to 4% as economy adds 40,000 new jobs

    Jobless rate eases as employers shrug off rising costs to keep adding to their workforces
  • Composite image for Stagflation debate between Hannam and Barrett

    Stagflation: is Australia heading back to the 1970s? Our economics and business writers go head to head

    The economy has stalled and inflation remains high. Should we be worried? Guardian Australia’s experts have very different views
  • Greens senator Penny Allman-Payne

    Inequality reporting
    Australian job providers under investigation for demanding payslips from jobseekers

    Action comes after a Guardian inquiry in April revealed private providers were using extreme methods to retrieve payslips and claim public money

May 2024

  • Workers in Sydney’s CBD

    Australia’s unemployment rate rises to 4.1% reducing chance of another RBA interest rate hike

    Jobless rate increases from a revised 3.9% in March but it’s a mixed picture with employers adding 38,500 jobs overall
  • No increase to base jobseeker rate means payments remain below poverty line

    The Crunch
    No increase to base jobseeker rate in budget means Centrelink payment remains below poverty line

    There will be no change to unemployment payments despite a government committee and several social services groups calling for an increase
  • Centrelink signage at the Prahran office

    Inequality reporting
    Centrelink mutual obligations: budget changes tipped to prevent 1m jobseeker suspensions a year

    Announcements are ‘good steps’ to reduce harms caused by employment services system but fall short of the overhaul required, advocates say

April 2024

  • Illustration of hands reaching for money

    Inequality reporting
    Payslip wars: Australian jobseekers suffer harassment in ‘a crazy system that doesn’t work for anyone’

  • People queuing outside a Centrelink office

    Poverty experts tell Labor jobseeker payments should be lifted to 90% of age pension

  • The ABS reported that unemployment rate rose to 3.8% in March.

    Australia’s unemployment rate rises to 3.8% in March as employers shed more than 6,000 jobs

  • Who screwed millennials cover art for website. Episode 1.

    Who screwed millennials?
    Who screwed millennials: a generation left behind, part 1 – podcast

March 2024

  • Who screwed millennials cover art for website

    Full Story
    Who screwed millennials: a generation left behind, part 1 – Full Story podcast

    In this new series, Jane Lee and Matilda Boseley investigate how millennials became the first generation worse off than their parents
  • Reserve Bank of Australia building with ibis in front

    As unemployment drops, so too do expectations of an RBA interest rate cut in the coming months

    Michele Bullock has made it clear that curbing inflation remains top priority, but the numbers point to a labour market that isn’t easing as fast as predicted

    • Australia’s unemployment rate unexpectedly drops from 4.1% to 3.7% in February despite slowing economy

    • Grogonomics
      Now is not the time to do anything more to slow the economy – it’s already in danger of stalling

      Greg Jericho

    • Inequality reporting
      Brain tumour patient had Centrelink payments suspended while in hospital recovering from surgery

February 2024

  • Shoppers in Sydney

    Australia’s unemployment rate hits two-year high of 4.1% as higher interest rates bite

  • People in a line waiting

    Inequality reporting
    Workforce Australia job agencies forced to return $8.5m in taxpayer funds after huge surge in faulty claims

January 2024

  • Tony Burke

    Inequality reporting
    Renewed calls for Labor to ditch work for the dole scheme as major charity walks away

    Brotherhood of St Laurence will no longer take part, saying program is ‘not in the best interests of people who are unemployed’
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