{"id":218093,"date":"2025-10-16T16:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/218093\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T16:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:09:08","slug":"australia-unemployment-reaches-three-year-high-rba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/218093\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia unemployment reaches three-year high \u2013 RBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Employment growth has slowed through the year. Pickering said that after increasing employment by 14,900 in September, Australia added 116,000 jobs in the first nine months of 2025 compared with 323,000 over the same period last year. He described this as evidence that \u201clabour market conditions continue to cool,\u201d and said \u201cthe Reserve Bank would be foolish not to cut rates when they meet in November.\u201d However, he noted that vacancy indicators such as ANZ-Indeed Job Ads and ABS Job Vacancies remained positive, describing a current disconnect between \u201cmediocre employment gains and ongoing strength in vacancies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Employment growth has slowed through the year. Pickering said that after increasing employment by 14,900 in September, Australia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,133209,133210,44,183],"class_list":["post-218093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-unemployment-rate","tag-labour-market-australia","tag-news","tag-reserve-bank-of-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}