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The Rate of Unemployment: 5% or 13.6%?

Posted by Chris Leithner on 10th March 2011 10:13pm

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics and its sockpuppets in the mainstream media, the rate of unemployment in Australia is 5%.

According to the survey research of Roy Morgan Research - one of the biggest and longest-established private sector research firms in Oz - however, "1.6 million (13.6%) Australians are Unemployed or Underemployed".

Obviously, Roy Morgan is wrong because (i) our Dear Leaders are omniscient and (ii) they would NEVER EVER gild the lily...