In June 14.5% of the workforce (2.05 million Australians) were unemployed, down 42,000 on May. However, this slight improvement was largely cancelled out by the rise in under-employment, now at 10% of the workforce (1.41 million), and up 37,000 on a month ago.

ANZ-Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence dropped 4.5pts to 93.0 this week – and is now at its lowest for over a month since May 23/24, 2020 (92.7). Consumer Confidence is now 25.9pts lower than a year ago on the comparable weekend of June 29/30, 2019 (118.9) and 2.1pts below the 2020 weekly average of 95.1.

New research from Roy Morgan shows over 4.3 million people (32% of working Australians) have been ‘working from home’ (WFH) during the last few months since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down large parts of the Australian economy. These findings are based on interviews with 9,905 Australians aged 14+ conducted in April-May 2020 – of whom 6,637 are working Australians.

Consumer confidence bounced nearly 8 points in June to 104.5, but is still well under its historical average.

Support for the L-NP has dropped to 50.5% cf. ALP 49.5% on a two-party preferred basis in mid-June according to telephone and online interviewing conducted over the weekends of June 13/14 & 20/21, 2020 with a representative cross-section of 2,593 Australian electors.

A special analysis of movement data at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo shows visitation picking up since the re-opening of the Sydney landmark on the first of June, but still well below the levels seen during the early part of the year, particularly in February and early March.

Over 12.7 million Australians (61%) now use music streaming services in an average four weeks – an increase of over 3.7 million from only three years ago.