Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The Leader of the Opposition knows full well from the unemployment forecasts which are contained in the economic outlook that we are projecting unemployment to rise to seven per cent in the next year or so. Those figures are there for all to see. The honourable member will know therefore that we are in the midst of the jobs consequence flowing from the global economic recession—

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