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Parliamentary Questions


Question Without Notice No. 540 asked in the Legislative Assembly on 13 August 2020 by Mrs L.M. Harvey

Parliament: 40 Session: 1

YOUTH — UNEMPLOYMENT

540. Mrs L.M. HARVEY to the Premier:

I have a supplementary question. Can the Premier outline to the house what the government's youth and overall jobs targets are; and, if not, why not?

Mr M. McGOWAN replied:

Obviously, our aim is to drive the unemployment rate down to as low as possible, but we are in a pandemic that has impacted the entire world. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition listened to what I just said. We have the strongest employment growth of all mainland states and territories. A total of 19 200 Western Australians found work in July. Since the start of the pandemic, we have recovered 41 000 jobs. We have easily the highest participation rate in the nation and it is growing, which obviously impacts the figures. Clearly, the situation is difficult for many people and many businesses across Western Australia, but we are doing all we can to recover the situation, which obviously has been created by a pandemic that was outside our control.