Queensland has the highest September unemployment rate in the country with 7.7 per cent to the nation’s 6.9 per cent average, according to job figures released yesterday.
Labor says the high statistic is because the data does not reflect the thousands of Queenslanders on JobKeeper payments.
The LNP pledged to lower this figure by 5 per cent in the next four years if elected later this month, a promise Premier Anastasia Palaszczuk has deemed ‘irresponsible’.