https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-17/one-unemployed-person-per-vacant-job-full...

One unemployed person per vacant job: Has Australia finally hit full employment

By ABC business reporter Gareth Hutchens

Article tells how Chifley introduced Australia's full employment policy, as an alternative to the misery of 10 % unemployment in the interwar years, resulting in unemployment less than 2% for almost thee decades,  1946-the 70's.

I read a tweet the other day about how many adverts in NZ there were begging for people to come to WA. NOW.

Maybe they were just running out of gimps who've all moved to Melbourne to become baristas.

freediver wrote on Jul 18^th, 2022 at 9:36pm:


Wouldn't matter if there was the option of moving on from temporary housing into a home........ there's your problem...... renting should not be a lifestyle choice........ the best form of home life security is getting a home......     

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Jul 18^th, 2022 at 10:55pm:


Dick Smith spoke a lot of sense several years back when he pointed to the impossibility of continuous increase in population to grow the economy.

The demands on the Murray's resources are already greater than the river's capacity.

thegreatdivide wrote on Jul 18^th, 2022 at 11:49pm:



So true.

demographic change.

we are going to run out of young people.

rural folk have 6 kids because they are free labour.

a kid when you live in an urban apartment is just a pain.

an expensive pain who is usually baby sat by the electronic device and grows up with little attachment to parents who are terrible role models , living their "surviving and coping" lifestyle.

the cat and dog are better fits for these beaten down chodes.

as we enter an age where the number of people over 80 will quadruple and they are all entitled and feel they deserve 3 months of expensive hospital care every time their diabetic toe turns black, we will simply run out of staff to care for them and cash to apy for their entitlement.

its probably a good idea to start to take some personal responsibility becasue the demographics are going to leave this enormous bulge of frail and soft boomers pretty much abandoned.

without a functional economy, all the things that people expect albo or scomo to pay for evaporate.

and with so few new workers coming thru, with them prefering to just be chodes then start businesses, with them having zero sense of duty to parents and prefering their phone as their best friend , the evolutionary blowtorch is about to be applied to millions of older australians , right when they are hopelessly inadequately prepared to deal with it.

you should train hard to build personal strength.

you will certainly need it

aquascoot wrote on Jul 19^th, 2022 at 5:21am:


It's not oldies filling up hospital beds unnecessarily.

Frontline doctors have issued desperate pleas for more people to get
vaccinated after reporting that in some hospitals all new intensive care
COVID patients have not had jabs.  An estimated 5 million people, or
10% of the eligible UK population, have not been inoculated, and it is
this group who are seemingly draining the most resources from
overstretched hospitals, experts say.  Cambridge’s Royal Papworth
hospital said more than 80% of its COVID patients requiring the most
care were unjabbed.

—The Guardian UK, 23 December 2021.

underemployment is the new thing

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