Chicken Chalmers lies about full employment

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The Jim “Chicken” Chalmers Employment White Paper is not a bad document. It’s training and marginal worker incentives are useful if way too small:

Building on the foundation of last year’s Jobs and Skills Summit, Working Future has been informed by extensive consultation and input from across government and more than 400 valuable submissions from stakeholders in every state and territory.

As part of the White Paper, the Government will take nine immediate steps including to:

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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.