The Australian unemployment rate has fallen for the sixth consecutive month, down to 5.5 percent between March and April, after the JobKeeper wage subsidy ended. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures show that the jobless rate is now just 0.2 percent above the unemployment figures from start of the pandemic and 2 percent lower than the peak in July where it reached 7.4 percent. One Nation minister Mark Latham said the numbers were an “economic miracle” and attributed it to the shift in national policy on immigration. “The immigration levels are basically zero, and it’s giving Australians a chance, the first real chance they’ve had in a long while, to access these jobs without the flooding of the labour market with arrivals from overseas,” Latham told Sky News Australia. ABS found that around 31,000 fewer people were employed after JobKeeper ended. However, falling participation rates kept the jobless rate …