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Australia's jobless rate rises to 4.6% as more people look for work

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Australia’s unemployment rate rose to 4.6% in August, even as employers added 39,000 jobs, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said Thursday. The number of unemployed people climbed by 28,000 over the…