Mining leads job gains

Thursday, 17 September 2015

Not a headline you’ll see anywhere else is it? But it’s true over the last quarter, from COMMSEC:

The explanation could be more ABS numberwang or it’s possible we’ve still got major projects scrambling to finish with more staff. Not over the year, though, from Bloxo:

The future of out dynamic new economy right there: bed pans.

About the author

David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.