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The Reserve Bank is not smashing the jobs market
Claims the central bank is needlessly throwing vulnerable Australians out of work are not backed up by the statistics.
John KehoeEconomics editorThe unemployment rate is a historically low 4.1 per cent, the same as the start of this year.
More than 388,000 additional workers have secured a job this year and more than a million extra people are in work since the start of the Albanese government.
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John Kehoe is economics editor at Parliament House, Canberra. He writes on economics, politics and business. John was Washington correspondent covering Donald Trump’s election. He joined the Financial Review in 2008 from Treasury. Connect with John on Twitter. Email John at jkehoe@afr.com
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