People working 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet 👍

Under-employment at an all time high. You lot have supposedly created thousands of jobs, but we all need three of them just to pay the rent.

How many are on a full time liveable wage? How many people need to have 2 jobs just to be able to afford their rent let alone all other living expenses?

A strong economy based on people still needing to spend money to live. The fact that they don’t really have the money to afford living doesn’t come into play with your lot. How about focus on wages going backward against the cost of living, rather than a stat like that.

All the people who have lost their jobs through the Mandates are not represented in these figures as they are not registered until after the election.

what a lot of wingers on this site, don,t they realise Australia IS the best country in the world, if you don,t like it LIVE somewhere else, some of you people have had it too easy for far too long

Don’t worry 😉 it will get higher as interest rates and all goes up ..

Yea! ...how many are on a contract as opposed to ongoing ...Try getting a loan on contract employment.But hey in your eyes employment is employment

Well where's the incentive to get a bludger get off his arse when the dole isn't much less than the minimum wage??

With all due respect Senator Fawcett, or whoever posts on your page on your behalf, we both know this figure by itself is absolutely and utterly meaningless and if you don't then you should. Employment, unemployment, underemployment, earning a living wage, minimum wage etc can never be summarised with a single statistic. I'm sick of politicians cherry picking a single statistic to make an erroneous claim about a much bigger and more complex picture. Either this approach is being deliberately deceitful or you are laying bare your lack of understanding of the science of statistics, particularly statistics to fully describe an aspect of the social landscape. So if it is being deceitful, this disgusting or if it is you don't understand how to use this statistic then our trust in the government is even more worrying that it already is. Let's look at this statistic, 3.9% unemployment. What it actual means is, 1 out of 25 to 26 Australians of working age who is either working or looking for work, does not work for 1 or more hours a week. That's it. Full stop. It doesn't tell us anything more. If you can provide more statistics such as how many of the 25 to 26 Australians actually earn a liveable wage, how many of the 25 to 26 Australians are underemployed, how many of the 25 to 26 Australians earn the minimum wage (which has not kept up with inflation), how many of the 25 to 26 Australian's need to work more than 2 or 3 jobs to survive and how many of the 25 to 26 Australians have secure employment we can begin to have a meaningful conversation. Simply stating the unemployment rate based on "have you worked for an hour on more this week" is a waste of time and means nothing. This 3.9% does not count the people who have given up looking for work. Not all who read fanciful claims are innumerate!

In 2013, Australia had 23.13 million people. Today, we have approximately 25.92 million people. So we have basically 2.8 million more people with 1.9 million more jobs, so we’re 900k jobs worse off than population gain

so what good jobs have we gained to get this rapid decrease, it usually comes a bit before christmas so the pollies can flap their gums, then ends a little after christmas, i wonder why.

Nobody believes this bullshit. Other polls put the real figure being more like 9%.

How's that underemployment figure?

be thankful you have a job. if you have to work more than one - that might be a you problem and not everyone else's. i used to work 4 till i found the right one after upskilling. you dont need to work hard you need to get smart. again thats a you problem. if you think your doing enough - your probably not and are just winging loafer.

What about the way Centrelink are treating older unemployed!Over 60s expected to keep up with so called‘Mutual’ Obligations not mutual at all,all one sided,and people on disability restrictions,kept on the lesser Jobseeker.Either put them on Disability Support Pension or lower the retirement age.Treated with contempt and no compassion.It’s almost impossible to attain.

Bet 48 years ago they didn’t consider a few hours a week employed. It’s like comparing an apple to a pear. I can believe some people are buying the bs?

You don't mention the underemplyment figure is that also a record again? The only honest way to report employment is hours worked per week divided by 38 that is the number of jobs. Your government has achieved 2 things increased employment and increased underemplyment actual hours worked is now much less than it was before your government came to power.

Laurence Quinn there's no doubt about being the best country in the world but the question is could it be better ? Over 60% of Australians consider corruption a problem, I'm one of them and we were promised an integrity commision. The one Morrison wanted wouldn't have public hearings, wouldn't release findings to the public, wouldn't be able to take tip offs from the public, wouldn't be able to investigate matters over $100 million and would be able to investigate politicians or their department. It was so weak that a former Victorian judge described it as not exposing corruption but would effectively hide corruption. Even members of the liberal party threatened to cross the floor if put to a vote.

Are they not bringing workers in from over seas ? .

Yeh sure, keep SCREWING the workers to make the rich RICHER 😡😡😡

Time they came up with a figure for UNDER EMPLOYMENT and that would be around 40%. These BS figures are just rubbery figures.

www.rba.gov.au/education/resources/explainers/unemployment-its-measurement-and-types.html

Absolute bullshit. Typical government , Piss on the people and tell them it's raining !

ABS absolute bull shit data.....