Election FactCheck: have 50,000 full-time jobs been lost this year and are over a million people underemployed?
- Written by Alan Duncan, Director, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre and Bankwest Research Chair in Economic Policy, Curtin University
On their watch… 50,000 full-time jobs have been lost this year alone. Over one million Australians are underemployed. – Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, speech to Queensland Labor Business Breakfast, June 8, 2016.
As he launched Labor’s economic plan in Brisbane, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said that under the Coalition...