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This graph compares the unemployment rate with the effective unemployment rate, a composite measure introduced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics during the COVID-19 pandemic made up of unemployed people,  employed people who still had a job but worked zero hours for economic reasons, and the reduction in the labour force compared with pre-lockdown levels.