ECONOMICS: Setting pay to create new jobs*

Unemployment is a national scandal, yet neither of Australia’s major political parties is prepared to acknowledge the true magnitude of the problem.The Howard Government recently congratulated itself on supposedly getting joblessness down to a 23-year low of 5.5 per cent of the workforce (The Australian, June 11). Yet this figure has been challenged by the recent landmark study, Men and Women Apart: Partnering in Australia, by Dr Bob Birrell and his colleagues at the Monash University’s Centre f…

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