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AUSTRALIA: Terry McCrann noted the following in the Herald Sun: "Roy Morgan
Research data showed over 2mn Australians were still unemployed in June...
that's a staggering 14.5% jobless rate. We will have to wait another 2 weeks for
the fake ABS jobs and jobless numbers, which will once again dramatically
understate the real jobless figure & will in any event only take us up to the
first 2 weeks of June... The gap between that 7.1% & the virtually unchanged
(from May) Morgan 14.5% is bad enough, but I estimate that the real jobless
number is even higher - at least 20% of the workforce. This is when you add to
those formally recognised as jobless, those who have just left the workforce as
there's no point in looking for a job, plus some of those in JobKeeper who would
have been sacked but for the government subsidy which is currently scheduled to
terminate at the end of September. There was a tiny bit of good news in the
Morgan numbers; their jobless number dropped 42,000 from May. But that was
almost entirely cancelled by the rise in under-employment - those who were in a
job but wanted to work more hours."
MNI London Bureau | +44 0203-865-3809 | anthony.barton@marketnews.com
MNI London Bureau | +44 0203-865-3809 | anthony.barton@marketnews.com

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