'Devastating': Almost 6,000 lose jobs in Ballarat latest figures suggest

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Updated June 26 2020 - 7:01pm, first published 9:50am
JOBLESS: The queue outside Centrelink in the early days of the COVID-19 restrictions. Picture: Hayley Elg.
JOBLESS: The queue outside Centrelink in the early days of the COVID-19 restrictions. Picture: Hayley Elg.

The true scale of the employment crisis in Ballarat has become clearer, with new figures suggesting almost 6,000 jobs have been lost since the COVID-19 crisis began.

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Jolyon Attwooll

Journalist

Reporter at the Ballarat Courier. Ex-Londoner and former commissioning editor at The Telegraph (the UK broadsheet, not the Sydney tabloid).

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