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Comment author: DanielLC 09 December 2012 11:05:10PM 4 points [-]

I came to Alice Springs in late April, and secured a job at a fast-food immediately. They offered me $26/hr after super and penalties.

I find that surprising. If the government has a high minimum wage, they can require the fast-food places to pay that much, but then the jobs would be nigh impossible to get. Why are they that desperate?

Comment author: MileyCyrus 09 December 2012 11:21:47PM *  2 points [-]

Beats me. I wasn't even the least qualified person; some of my coworkers could barely speak English. The Alice Springs unemployment rate was less than 3% at the time, not counting backpackers.

Comment author: dbaupp 10 December 2012 12:25:24AM *  4 points [-]

The Alice Springs unemployment rate was less than 3% at the time

This surprises me, since the NT has serious problems (e.g. the unemployment in the surrounding area is ~20%, with occasional townships at about ~8%).

Do you happen to have any insight into why Alice is such an outlier?

Comment author: MileyCyrus 10 December 2012 02:14:50AM *  3 points [-]

I suspect most of the variation comes from the aboriginal population. There are whole villages in the Northern Territory where nobody has a job and everybody lives off welfare.

Edit: Half of the territorians live in Darwin, where the unemployment rate is around 2%.

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