Rebecca Cassells

Western Australia’s labour market has continued to go from strength to strength as another month of labour force data rolls in.

A nationwide run of six consecutive months of employment growth was halted in April 2021, with the number of people employed falling by 30,600 as JobKeeper came to an end.

Supply chain issues have been a feature of the COVID-19 global economy and have been disrupting business activity for some time, constraining business potential and operations.

Together with productivity and participation, population is one of the key elements of economic growth.

The current health of the Western Australian economy is being reflected through the optimism and confidence reported by the state’s small businesses.

Delivering a budget surplus used to be the key performance indicator upon which all treasurers across the nation were judged, but this has now been replaced by the ability to deliver jobs back to the economy.