Summary: ANZ’s job ads index dives in April; five times worse than previous record fall; a bad sign for employment in coming months. From mid-2017 onwards, year-on-year growth rates in the total number of Australian job advertisements consistently exceeded 10%. That was until mid-2018 when the annual growth rate fell back markedly. 2019 was notable for its reduced employment advertising, along with a reversal of the gains in 2017...