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Unemployment--the secret crisis. (Economics).(Australia)(Statistical Data Included)

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| April 01, 2002 | Henderson, Ian | COPYRIGHT 2002 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

JUST TWO DAYS before the Howard government was returned for a third term on 11th November last year, compelling evidence emerged that it had failed the first test of any federal administration: the unemployment test.

What was reported by the Australian Bureau of Statistics should have spelt the end of the Coalition, if the voting public had acted on its purported views. That the government survived suggests that the public and makers of public policy have become comfortable with a situation that, in many other countries and even here in earlier times, would be widely regarded as a national crisis.

According to the ABS, the number of men and women aged ...

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