Recently, Craig Milne from the Australian Productivity Council (not the Australian Productivity Commission), reflected on the effect of free trade in Australia over the last 40-plus years.
The result has been an increase in unemployment from around 2 per cent between 1950 and 1970 to a claimed 5.9 per cent today. Youth unemployment is even higher, and the figures are further distorted by the inclusion of people who are engaged in as little as one-plus hour of work a week being cla…
