ANALYSIS: With two days to go, today saw one of the ugliest exchanges of the campaign
It was a number rich day with the latest unemployment figures landing, revealing that the unemployment rate has dropped from 4 per cent toIt lead to every social media account run by a Coalition MP exploding with joy — the finance Minister Simon Birmingham sharing a pic of himself being bottle fed by his nanna to demonstrate just how long it's been since the job rate has been that good. How good! The PM loves to tell us how good stuff is.
Of these people, around 340,000 worked no hours, which was around triple what we would usually see. Living with COVID not as easy as we'd like, I suppose.The PM couldn't miss the opportunity to talk about the jobless rate and Albanese stood up again — to finally take questions of his own on the costings.
Albanese told the media he will conduct audits of government grants programs ahead of a first budget he would deliver later this year if elected prime minister.There was then a press conference from the Coalition's economic team to criticise Labor's costings and the circle of press conferences was complete.Australia's minister for employment, Stuart Robert, started the day talking to me talking about that unfortunate bulldozer moment on the soccer field.
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