Australia's jobless figure for April have raised to 5.4 per cent after official data was released today by The Australian Bureau of Statistics .
Unemployment has increased .01% since February.
Economists polled by AAP expected the Australian labour market to have added 20 thousand jobs in April.
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The number of people unemployed increased in April, up 6,500 people to 628,100, the ABS reported.
According to the ABS this was the eighth consecutive month Australia has seen a rise in the number of people employed full-time.
The budget had predicted the unemployment rate would fall to 4.75 per cent by 2012.
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