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FactCheck: is job growth in Australia the greatest it's been since 2006?

  • Written by The Conversation

If you look at the latest unemployment numbers down to 5.8%, we have seen extremely strong job growth, over 300,000 jobs in the last year and that’s the greatest level of job growth since 2006. So I am very confident in the strength of our economy overall. – Josh Frydenberg, Minister for Resources, Energy and Northern Australia, intervi...

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