SA jobless rate falls to 5.3pc

SA jobless be~ falls to 5.3pcThere has been a fall in the South Australian unemployment duty in May.

It is down from 5.6 per cent in April to 5.3 per cent last month, seasonally-adjusted.

National unemployment is at 5.2 per cent.

SA Employment Minister Jack Snelling says the number of South Australians with full-time jobs rose by 500 in May, which made eight rises in a squabble.

“That just confirms that the state economy’s in good cut, that it’s resilient,” he said.

“When you think of quite the things that have been going on nationally which might wish affected the economy in SA, there’s been an increase in filled-time employment.”

The Opposition claims the SA Government will be unable to meet its election pledge to create 100,000 new jobs.

Liberal vocation spokesman David Pisoni says the SA figure masks falls in local job advertisements and low confidence reported in a survey of South Australian businesses.

“You be able to’t go past the fact that if the Rann Government had kept up by the national figures in job growth that there would be 27,000 besides South Australians in work now that what these figures reflect,” he reported.