Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

The Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations has provided the following answer to the honourable senator's question:

Employment projections produced by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) are based in part on the Monash model developed by the Centre of Policy Studies at Monash University and Deloitte Access Economics projections, but also take into account recent employment trends and known industry developments at the time of compilation. The projections are published on DEEWR's Labour Market Information Portal (deewr.gov.au/lmip).

DEEWR's projections do not make any specific assumptions about productivity or competitiveness in the Manufacturing industry, nor has DEEWR performed any specific modelling on the impact of changes in productivity or competitiveness on employment in Manufacturing.