Election FactCheck: Have 300,000 new jobs been created in the last calendar year and were almost two-thirds held by women?
- Written by Rebecca Cassells, Associate Professor, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University
In the last calendar year, 300,000 new jobs were created; almost two-thirds of these were women. – Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, speaking to the Menzies Research Centre, June 10, 2016.
As part of his pitch to voters about “jobs and growth”, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said that 300,000 new jobs had been created in the last...