Anthony Albanese’s grasp of numbers, casual workforce, Alexander Downer’s election view, economic options.
has over the years never been shy in pushing its own election-time scare campaign, which, almost without exception, has been concentrated on the denunciation of “Labor’s union masters”.In an assessment of Australian Bureau of Statistics figures apparently showing the casual workforce has diminished over the period of Coalition government, thepoints to a “policy lie” perpetrated by Labor in its supposed campaign against “insecure work”.
Pardon me for being so impertinent as to ask what percentage of the overall workforce do these workforce constituents represent?But given that some 3.8 million people – or 31.9 per cent of Australia’s total workforce of 11.
Ironically, Albo’s mistake puts him in some very distinguished company. Albert Einstein was frequently unable to recite basic physics and maths formulae during his lectures. When challenged by a student, Einstein replied: “Why would I bother remembering something I can look up in a book?”
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