Tasmania sheds 2700 jobs in latest figures, many more to go
Tasmania's coronavirus jobs carnage has started to show up in the official figures, with an estimated 2700 jobs gone in March.
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The Australian Bureau of Statistics estimated total employment dropped to 257,800 in March in seasonally adjusted terms as the coronavirus-related downturn started to take hold.
The figures are expected to get much worse, particularly in coming months because the March numbers were calculated mid-month, before most of the closures and cuts took place.
The March numbers suggested women had been hit much harder than men.
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