James Stevens (Sturt, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

There are many important statistics that are released on our economy, but I think it's thoroughly defensible to say that unemployment is far and away, in my view, the most important. Last Thursday we had the monthly release of the ABS statistics, which showed the 36th consecutive month of jobs growth in the Australia economy. The government is to be thoroughly commended for that performance. In fact, in my own state—

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