On May 01 20:44 96, Lewin Edwards of 3:634/396 wrote:

MH>> 40% of those ready, willing and able to work are pounding the pavements, 
MH>> harrassing 
MH>> business people in their fruitless search for work, very few get
lucky and 

LE> I can't believe this. Can't possibly be true. You're seriously telling me 
LE> that nearly half the available workers in Australia are jobless ? The 
LE> country would collapse in ruins if it were true.

Bill - smell the coffee.   The government of the day has been desperately
twisting the figures as hard as they can to conceal the magnitude of the
problem for years.  The hard core isn't even looking any more.

Ruins?  Nah.  Even Whitlam and Keating couldn't manage it - Australia is tough.

Regards,
Dave Hatch.

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