The Australian’s Adam Creighton has launched a stinging attack on the ABS’ official unemployment figures, effectively calling them ‘fake’ and claiming the real figure is more like 15%:
The official national jobless rate fell to 5.7 per cent last week, prompting perfunctory cheers. But the reality is that more than 2.26 million Australians of working age can’t find work, far more than the 732,000 suggested in April’s figures.
