More people are competing for fewer roles | 1News

10,000 people lost their jobs in the first three months of the year, prompting unemployment to rise to 4.3%.

But it's actually much worse than that with thousands more people being laid off in April.

The Reserve Bank has forecast that the unemployment rate will rise to 5% this year.

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