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SBS On the Money: The true state of Australia's jobless market

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138,000 jobs were lost in September but the unemployment rate only rose slightly to 4.6 per cent, so SBS Finance Editor Ricardo Gonçalves speaks with Sarah Hunter from BIS Oxford Economics to unpack the numbers.

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