New Zealand jobless rate falls to 4.8pc, lowest in eight years

Unemployment has dropped to the lowest level in more than eight years, falling to 4.8 per cent in the middle of the year.

Despite a surprise fall in the number of people working in recent months, Statistics New Zealand said those classified as unemployed dropped by 3000 to 128,000 in the three months to June 30.

At 4.8 per cent, unemployment sits at the lowest since the final months of 2008, during the global financial crisis, in the months that National took office.

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