“Australia has "seen employment go above its pre-pandemic levels".”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
Mr Frydenberg's claim is a fair call. The April 2021 jobs figures show there were roughly 46,000 more Australians working than in March 2020, when the pandemic struck. As experts noted, there are other ways to assess the health of the jobs market. Viewed as a share of the population (aged 15 and over), employment was close to March 2020 levels, sitting 0.1 percentage points lower in April 2021. It was also similar to the average for the year before the pandemic. While the April employment to ...
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In short
Josh Frydenberg (Treasurer) made this claim around 11 May 2021. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 9 June 2021, 29 days later. Its rating was “Fair call”.
Josh Frydenberg has 9 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 7 misleading or mixed and 2 true.
Where the claim appeared
- ministers.treasury.gov.auhttps://ministers.treasury.gov.au/ministers/josh-frydenberg-2018/speeches/budget-speech-2…
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