The Turnbull Government’s giant “jobs fraud”

Monday 21 May 2018

Former Labor leader, Mark Latham, last week ripped into the Turnbull Government’s “jobs fraud” on Facebook:

Malcolm Turnbull today has gleefully announced a ‘great achievement of the Coalition Government’: Since 2013, 1,013,600 new jobs have been created in Australia, cracking the million mark.

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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.