{"id":540486,"date":"2026-07-23T15:28:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/540486\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T15:28:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:28:45","slug":"australias-unemployment-rate-remains-at-4-4-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/540486\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s unemployment rate remains at 4.4 percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s unemployment rate stayed at 4.4 percent in June, according to the latest Labour Force data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.<\/p>\n<p>The rise in employment was driven by a 47,000-person rise in part-time work, pushing it to more than 4.6 million people, with full-time employment also rising up by 29,300 to over 10 million people.<\/p>\n<p>Australian correspondent Murray Olds says the Reserve Bank is looking for unemployment figures to go higher in order to cool the economy down.<\/p>\n<p>LISTEN ABOVE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s unemployment rate stayed at 4.4 percent in June, according to the latest Labour Force data from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[85,138,219,111,139,69,144621,241],"class_list":["post-540486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-reservebank","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}