Australian employment change -29.3k

19/01/2012 | 00:30 GMT

Unemployment rate 5.2%
December full-time employment +24k
Participation rate 65.2%

The headline number doesn’t tell the whole story, with a very decent increase in full-time employment being offset by a large decrease in part-trime jobs.

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