Hundreds of people queue outside an Australian government welfare centre, Centrelink, in Melbourne on March 23, 2020, as jobless Australians flooded unemployment offices around the country. (Photo by William WEST / AFP)
SYDNEY: Australian job advertisements steadied in May after suffering their largest ever fall in April, with a steady improvement seen as the month progressed after a very depressed start.
Tuesday's figures from Australia and New Zealand Banking Group showed total job ads edged up 0.5% in May, from April when they had collapsed by 53.4%.
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