Bill Shorten to target Aussie underemployment

Monday 14 March 2016

Opposition leader, Bill Shorten, has declared that a Labor Government would target “full employment” and “underemployment” if his party is elected later this year. From The SMH:

Bill Shorten has declared the next election should be a referendum on policy results and “leadership”, branding Malcolm Turnbull’s government to be long on waffle, as the country struggles with the under-employment of more than a million people, and the worst economic inequality for 75 years.

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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.