You have to look through today’s confusing Labour Force figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics to get a true sense of the worsening state of the labour market, writes Glenn Dyer.
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A nation building and jobs plan for indigenous Australia
CDEP should never have been abolished, but this is even more the case given the predicted dire downturn in the Australian labour market in 2009 and beyond, writes Jon Altman.
SackWatch: Ninemsn… MacBank… Harvey Norman… GE…
Crikey’s SackWatch continues apace with a spate of sackings, disappointing employment data and job surveys upping the pressure on the Senate to pass Kevin Rudd’s $42 billion stimulus package, writes Andrew Crook.
Slough of stimulated despond, here we come.
We need some new thinking that understands the mysterious links between mass psychology and the economy to lift the national fit of misery we’re slumping into, writes Bernard Keane.
NSW corners the market in unemployment
NSW’s poor performnace is distorting Austalia’s unemployment statistics, writes Bernard Keane.
Rudd’s salad days run continues
Today will be as good as it gets for the Government for a very long time, writes Bernard Keane.
NSW, the premier state: for unemployment, dysfunction …
Yesterday’s news of a fall in retail sales in NSW in the September quarter points to the extraordinarily serious problems the NSW economy currently faces, writes Bernard Keane.
Real economy part 1: The big picture
It’s an intangible thing, the real economy, because it’s a composite of millions of individual decisions a day, writes Bernard Keane.
Yes Gerard, we should keep immigration levels high
A worldwide recession is the ideal time to try to lure the world’s best skilled workers here, writes Bernard Keane.
The unemployed: inconvenient statistics
Over the last decade or more the federal government has been increasingly mean and penny pinching toward the unemployed, writes Lionel Elmore.
PM reluctant to draw a veil over Keating
It is differences of opinion, it appears, that make a Coalition when it comes to election campaign tactics. The last few days have revealed a clear difference in approach between the Liberal Party and the National Party.
