Public Service Industries See Strongest Job Growth in First Quarter

Public services industries show the strongest growth in the number of jobs in the country, according to the latest labour market report released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The report said that the three leading industries that experienced the strongest growth are healthcare and assistance (87,300), public administration and safety (23,200), and education and training (17,900). The same report also said that the professional, scientific, and technical services experienced a decline in job growth (25,700). This comes amid the ABS reporting that the country experienced slow labour market growth of 0.8 percent. “Over the past five quarters in particular, we’ve seen strong labour market growth in the three non-market sector industries—health care and social assistance, education and training, and public administration and safety—compared to the industries in the market sector,” said Bjorn Jarvis, ABS head of labour statistics....