In fact, as academics should well know, taking participation rate and unemployment rate together Australia has had a higher proportion of people in work during the Rudd/Gillard years than in any period in Australia's history. This despite the devastating global financial crisis.
So why imply the opposite? That may be a dopey question to put to Australian journalists. But not to academics.
Finally, to dispel any doubt that Fairfax is driving the Coalition's election campaign, here's the opinion poll at the bottom of the article:
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Poll: Do you think a leadership change will help Labor's chances of re-election?
(a) Yes, something has to change
(b) No, it's the Labor brand that's on the nose
(c) Not sure
Now, could there conceivably be any other answer to that question than those three?
First Murdoch. Now Fairfax. And now the universities? Such, it seems, is Australia's doom.
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Alan Austin is an Australian freelance journalist currently based in Nîmes in the South of France. His special interests are overseas development, Indigenous affairs and the interface between the religious communities and secular government. As a freelance writer, Alan has worked for many media outlets over the years and been published in most Australian newspapers. He worked for eight years with ABC Radio and Television’s religious broadcasts unit and seven years with World Vision. His most recent part-time appointment was with the Uniting Church magazine Crosslight.
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