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Water used for irrigation falls 21% in 2019-20: Australia
Above average temperatures and drought across much of the country resulted in a 21 per cent fall in the volume of water used for irrigation in 2019-20, according to data released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
ABS Director of Agriculture Statistics, Sarah Kiely, said: “The volume of water used for irrigation in 2019-20 dropped to 5.7 million megalitres (ML). The total area of crops and pastures irrigated also fell, down 22 per cent to 1.5 million hectares.”
Ms Kiely said farmers’ crop selection and water use decisions were influenced by the prevailing conditions of high temperatures, below average rainfall and reduced water availability through the 2019-20 financial year.
The recent spate of labour market indicators suggest fears that the end of the JobKeeper program would cause a major hiccup in Australia s impressive employment recovery are overblown.
And Treasurer Josh Frydenberg s big spending, jobs focused budget this week aims to keep it that way.
The successful JobKeeper wage subsidy that was introduced during the height of the pandemic ended in March.
But job advertiser SEEK s latest employment report shows demand for workers remains at record levels.
Job adverts are at a record high, despite fears the end of the JobKeeper subsidy would ruin employment figures
It shows job ads jumped 11.9 per cent in April, a second consecutive month of record postings.
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Job listings for April shot up almost 12% in April on job board Seek’s Australian site.
It marks a second consecutive month of the “highest number of job ads ever posted” said managing director of SEEK Australia and New Zealand Kendra Banks.
However lower than expected applications suggest the country’s reduced labour capacity could hinder ongoing growth.
New job ads on Seek increased by 11.9% month on month in April, making for a second consecutive month of record postings.
The figures contribute to growing evidence suggesting fears that the end of the government’s JobKeeper program would reverse Australia’s impressive employment recovery were overblown.
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