Vacancies have picked up for the nation as a whole since 2013, and most of the growth has been driven by New South Wales and Victoria, and rising vacancies in the service sector (Graph 8). Meanwhile, vacancies in Queensland and Western Australia, and for the goods sector, have been weak.
6  See Kent C (2014), “Ageing and Australia’s Economic Outlook”, Address to the Leading Age Services Australia (LASA) National Congress, Adelaide, 20 October. 7  The labour force series do not yet reflect recently released data showing lower rates of population growth, which implies that the number of people in each labour force category and their growth rates are overstated.