SYDNEY: Australia’s unemployment rate unexpectedly fell to 6.0 percent in May, data showed on Thursday, in a sign the economy could be starting to better adapt to the end of a mining investment boom.

Some 42,000 positions were added in the month, much higher than the 10,000 predicted by analysts, as the jobless rate ticked down from an adjusted 6.1 percent in April.

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