There is plenty of work out there isn't there?
It's all a conspiracy by the media, this country has never been better off.
There are so many jobs that big business has to bring in overseas workers.
Why don't they just tell the truth? It's shameful.
he's the Unemployment Prime Minister alright. watch as they try to hide the true numbers under a green army .. 
if anyone wonders where all of the disability pensions came from look no further than Howard trying to hide unemployed there .
codswallop - I think not 
But shadow treasurer Chris Bowen said the shortfall looked set to become Mr Abbott's ''biggest broken promise''.
''We cannot continue to see the poor performance on jobs continue with mass lay-offs, particularly in manufacturing, as the government abandons any meaningful role in fostering innovation and the high-skills and high-wage jobs that come with that,'' he said.
Professor Bill Mitchell, head of the University of Newcastle's Centre of Full Employment and Equity, said the jobs promise was ''incredibly far-fetched''. He said the shortfall would be greater even than the Parliamentary Library's figures suggested because Treasury's employment forecasts were overly optimistic.
Employment growth over the past two years had been ''virtually flat'', he said. Deep cuts flagged by the government in its coming May budget would worsen the problem.
