Peter Costello (Higgins, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable member for Cook for his question. Today we had the release of the labour force figures for the month of November. Those figures showed that in the month of November, the month just gone by, in Australia there were 57,400 new full-time jobs created. That is extraordinary jobs creation. After allowing for a fall in part-time employment, overall employment increased by 36,200 persons. If we go back over the nine months or so since Work Choices, there have been 200,000 new jobs created in Australia. If we go back to—

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