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Australian unemployment falls

Xinhua, June 11, 2015 Adjust font size:

Australian unemployment has fallen to 6 percent in May as an estimated 42,000 jobs were added to the local economy last month, the Australian Bureau of Statistics announced on Thursday.

Economists surveyed by financial company Bloomberg were expecting 15,000 jobs to be added and unemployment to remain steady at 6.2 percent, but they were wrong. Endi