Senate debates
Wednesday, 23 November 2016
Questions without Notice
Employment
2:17 pm
George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source
Honestly and truly, I have just pointed out to you that the part-time employment rate has actually fallen slightly in the last month, but the unemployment rate, which is the headline figure, the most important measure, has significantly fallen to 5.6 per cent, so that we now have the lowest unemployment in Australia for three years.
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