Pyne pleased by jobs result, more to do

Acting Employment Minister Christopher Pyne says the latest jobs figures are pleasing but he realises there's more work to do.

The federal government concedes more still needs to be done to get people into work, even as the jobless rate fell to its lowest level in a year.

"That's why in the budget we had a particular focus on jobs growth," the acting employment minister Christopher Pyne told reporters in Adelaide on Thursday.

New figures show 42,000 people obtained employment in May, pushing the jobless rate down to six per cent compared with a revised 6.1 per cent in April.


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