Jobs figures reveal 'our dark times': PM

By Colin Brinsden
Updated June 18 2020 - 3:46pm, first published 3:39pm
The unemployment rate rose to 7.1 per cent in May as the coronavirus pandemic wreaked havoc.
The unemployment rate rose to 7.1 per cent in May as the coronavirus pandemic wreaked havoc.

Scott Morrison has described the loss of another 228,000 jobs as Australia's "dark times", warning there could be more bad news to come as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

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