- Title
SJ No 118 - 26 November 2003
EMPLOYMENT—UNEMPLOYMENT RATE
- Database
Senate Journals
- Date
26-11-2003
- Source
Senate
- Parl No.
40
- Number
118
- Page
2737
- Status
- System Id
chamber/journals/2003-11-26/0017
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Senate Journal No. 118 - 26 November 2003
- 1 MEETING OF SENATE
- 2 GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
- 3 FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES (CLOSURE OF STUDENT FINANCIAL SUPPLEMENT SCHEME) BILL 2003E STUDENT ASSISTANCE AMENDMENT BILL 2003
- 4 MATTERS OF PUBLIC INTEREST
- 5 QUESTIONS
- 6 DEFENCE—ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
- 7 FINANCE—DEPOSIT BONDS—ANSWER TO QUESTION
- 8 PETITIONS
- 9 NOTICES
- 10 SELECTION OF BILLS—STANDING COMMITTEE—REPORT NO. 15 OF 2003
- 11 POSTPONEMENTS
- 12 ENVIRONMENT, COMMUNICATIONS, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND THE ARTS REFERENCES COMMITTEE—PROPOSED REFERENCE
- 13 POSTPONEMENT
- 14 TREATIES—JOINT STANDING COMMITTEE—REFERENCE
- 15 INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS—NATIONAL ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER SPORTS AWARDS
- 16 INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS—COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENTS
- 17 EMPLOYMENT—UNEMPLOYMENT RATE
- 18 DISCUSSION OF MATTER OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE—HEINER MATTER—CHILD ABUSE
- 19 SCRUTINY OF BILLS—STANDING COMMITTEE—14TH REPORT AND ALERT DIGEST NO. 15 OF 2003
- 20 PUBLIC WORKS—JOINT STATUTORY COMMITTEE—12TH AND 13TH REPORTS OF 2003
- 21 PUBLIC ACCOUNTS AND AUDIT—JOINT STATUTORY COMMITTEE—397TH REPORT
- 22 AUSTRALIA'S DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION PROGRAM—MINISTERIAL STATEMENT—DOCUMENT
- 23 HEALTH—TOBACCO—DOCUMENT
- 24 PARLIAMENTARY ZONE—CAPITAL WORKS PROPOSAL—DOCUMENT
- 25 DOCUMENTS
- 26 AUSTRALIA'S DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION PROGRAM—MINISTERIAL STATEMENT—CONSIDERATION
- 27 MEDICAL INDEMNITY AMENDMENT BILL 2003E MEDICAL INDEMNITY (IBNR INDEMNITY) CONTRIBUTION AMENDMENT BILL 2003
- 28 ENVIRONMENT, COMMUNICATIONS, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND THE ARTS LEGISLATION COMMITTEE—REPORT—PLASTIC BAG LEVY (ASSESSMENT AND COLLECTION) BILL 2002 [NO. 2] AND PLASTIC BAG (MINIMISATION OF USAGE) EDUCATION FUND BILL 2002 [NO. 2]
- 29 ORDER OF BUSINESS—REARRANGEMENT
- 30 SPAM BILL 2003E SPAM (CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) BILL 2003
- 31 GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS—CONSIDERATION
- 32 ADJOURNMENT
- 33 ATTENDANCE
EMPLOYMENT—UNEMPLOYMENT RATESenator Nettle amended her notice of motion by leave and, pursuant to notice of motion not objected to as a formal motion, moved general business notice of motion no. 710—That the Senate— (a) notes that the official unemployment rate fell to 5.6 per cent in October 2003; (b) further notes the report released by the Australian Council of Social Service on 13 November 2003, which found the official unemployment rate gravely underestimates the true level of joblessness and insufficient hours of work, and that the real level of unemployment is more than double the official rate; and (c) calls on the Federal Government to review the official definition of unemployment with the objective of developing, in consultation with the community, a more realistic measure of joblessness and insufficient hours of work. Question put and passed. | |