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Unemployment rate rises to 4.3pc as full-time jobs decline
By Emily Stewart

Australia's unemployment rate rose to 4.3 per cent in February, up from 4.1 per cent, in seasonally adjusted terms.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-19/australian-unemployment-rate-rises-february/106471570

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Unemployment rate rises to 4.3pc as full-time jobs decline

Australia's unemployment rate rose to 4.3 per cent in February, up from 4.1 per cent, in seasonally adjusted terms.

Steve Randy WaldmanJan 26, 2023
They say the economy has grown so much since then, but in the early 1990s you could quickly get a human on the phone 24 hours a day from most larger firms. The humans haven’t gotten more expensive, in real terms, especially given the virtualization and offshoring of call centers. It’s just that somebody has gotten so much richer we can’t afford for them to pick up. cf #EmilyStewart https://www.vox.com/23571375/no-call-center-phone-number-frontier-facebook
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Need to call Facebook? Frontier? Good luck — companies are axing call centers and phone call options to cut costs, and consumers are paying the price.

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Show threadDick Smiths Fair Go SupportersFeb 3, 2021

3/7… What's perhaps most insidious are some of the featured #editorials, shown as links on the page.

The most egregious is "Why are fewer women #investing in #shares?":
https://web.archive.org/web/20201108000949/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-24/why-are-fewer-women-investing-in-shares/11139454

This piece also from mid-2019 (this timeline is significant, see below) by business reporter, #EmilyStewart, is a #baitAndSwitch. The reader expects to learn…(3/7)

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