The unemployment rate in Australia was a seasonally adjusted 6.0 percent in June, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said on Thursday.
That was lower than estimates for 6.1 percent, although it was up from the downwardly revised 5.9 percent in May (originally 6.0 percent).
The Australian economy added 7,300 jobs in June to 11,768,600 – topping forecasts for a flat reading following the downwardly revised increase of 40,000 jobs in the previous month (originally 42,000).
Full-time employment increased 24,500 to 8,156,200 and part-time employment decreased 17,200 to 3,612,400.
The increase in employment was driven by increases in full-time employment for both females (up 17,500) and males (up 7,000). The increase in full-time employment was partially offset by decreases in part-time employment for both females (down 10,600) and males (down 6,600).
The participation rate inched up to 64.8 percent, beating expectations for 64.7 percent, which would have been unchanged.
Unemployment increased 12,800 to 756,100. The number of unemployed persons looking for full-time work increased 27,200 to 541,200 and the number of unemployed persons only looking for part-time work decreased 14,500 to 214,900.
Aggregate monthly hours worked increased 5.1 million hours (0.3 percent) to 1,636.9 million hours.
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