Dig into the detail of today’s unemployment figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics and one figure leaps out; one figure that shows how Daniel Andrews catastrophic coronavirus management has returned Victoria to the rustbelt status Jeff Kennett saved it from back in the nineties.
The participation rate — the number of people either in work or looking for work — is a mere 65 per cent, below the national average.
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