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Who needs a viable manufacturing sector when you can wipe old people’s bottoms. That’s essentially the view from Australia’s chief employment bureaucrat, Renee leon. From The Canberra Times:
Ms Leon told Fairfax Media that structural change in the labour market would continue to see growth in the service sector, including a plethora of new caring jobs.
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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.
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