O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! Fresh off the email from the Australian Bureau of Statistics: Labour Force, Australia, July 2020.
The headline? “Employment and hours worked rose in July.”
The reality? “The number of unemployed people rose by nearly 16,000 between June and July. For the first time there were more than one million people out of work, available to work and actively looking for work.”
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