We believe that employment growth isn’t as strong as the Australian Bureau of Statistics is reporting because net migration seems to have weakened more sharply than the ABS is assuming. While it will take many months for the labour force survey to reveal the true speed of job gains, weaker population growth is already resulting in slower growth in advertised rents and should eventually become disinflationary.
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