Headlines: Unemployment steady at 4.1%

February 19
3 mins

Episode Description

Today's headlines include:

  • The unemployment rate held steady at 4.1% for January with nearly 18,000 jobs created, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
  • Complaints to Australia’s Telecommunications Ombudsman have surged following multiple recent triple-zero outages across the Optus and Telstra networks.
  • E-commerce giant eBay will buy second-hand clothing app Depop for $AU1.7 billion. 
  • And today’s good news: Playing Tetris could help reduce distressing memories of trauma, researchers have found. 

Hosts: Emma Gillespie and Lucy Tassell
Producer: Rosa Bowden

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