This is what I can't get either: The LNP are promising 2m more jobs.. 1m in the next 5 years and the second million in the next 10 years.
They are expecting voters in 2013, who want jobs NOW to vote for a promise of more jobs in 5-10 years?
....Adelaide University demographer Graeme Hugo says Australia’s working age population is set to peak and stop growing within a decade as baby boomers become retirees and give up work.
It’ll make Tony Abbott’s target of 2 million more people in jobs much harder to achieve than history suggests, perhaps impossible.
(Perversely, it should make it far easier than it used to be for anyone who is of employable age to find a job.)
Except for this. It won’t be Abbott that creates those jobs. Here’s his Treasury spokesman Joe Hockey three years ago this month:
"Governments don’t create jobs, business creates jobs. Employers employ people, not governments."
He could have added that demography - especially immigration - has a lot to do with it too.
Our ruling
Abbott is wrong to say that his "economic plan can produce 1 million new jobs in five years, 2 million new jobs in a decade". Most of those jobs would be created anyway, even without his economic plan.
And changing demographics will make that difficult.
http://www.politifact.com.au/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/aug/09/tony-abbott/two-million-jobs-s-goi...
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