These are the April 2008 to April 2010 Australian unemployment benefit statistics.
595,458 people are receiving some form of 'Newstart Allowance'. In NZ in March there were 60,211 on the unemployment benefit.
Interestingly where our male/female ratio is 71/29 percent the Australian ration is 61/39. Part of the reason for this big difference is single parents with children 8 or older are now put on the unemployment benefit. If we did that here the same effect would be observed.
The current unemployment rate in Australia is 5.3 percent. Here it is 6 percent.
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