The treasurer is spruiking a strong jobs market as it concludes its first year in office.
Treasury analysis of jobs data shows 333,000 more Australians were employed in April 2023 compared to when Labor took office in May 2022.
The second time this occurred was under the Labor Rudd government, with just under 200,000 new jobs, and the third was Whitlam, with 161,500.
Although the treasury analysis doesn’t include change of leaders, including the first years of the Keating, Gillard, Turnbull and Morrison governments after their election wins.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has also seized on record high female employment, with an extra 21,400 women employed full-time in April and almost 224,000 more since a year ago….