Australia's unemployment rate was a seasonally adjusted 5.6 percent in September, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said on Thursday.
That was below forecasts for 5.8 percent and down from the revised 5.7 percent in August (originally 5.8 percent).
The Australian economy added 9,100 jobs to 11,645,800 - missing expectations for an increase of 15,000 following the loss of 10,200 jobs in the previous month.
Full-time employment increased 5,000 to 8,133,700 and part-time employment increased 4,100 to 3,512,100.
Unemployment decreased 14,700 (2.1 percent) to 697,100. The number of persons looking for full-time work decreased 5,000 to 509,200 and the number of persons looking for part-time work decreased 9,800 to 187,900.
The participation rate eased to 64.9 percent - shy of forecasts for 65.0 percent, which would have been unchanged from August.
Aggregate monthly hours worked decreased 6.4 million hours to 1,641.5 million hours.
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