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Deputy opposition leader Richard Marles was on Today earlier alongside Peter Dutton, discussing Ukraine and the week in parliament.
Karl Stefanovic:
Richard … it’s been a big week. The PM labelled you in parliament the Manchurian candidate, you little Chinese spy, you, hey?
(Laughs) Well, obviously not. But I think tossing around patriotism in that way and using it as a political football, I mean … I’m not particularly hurt by it but it does pay quite a disrespect, I think, to those men and women who we ask to put on a uniform each and every day and to literally put their lives on the line for that very concept.
These are really encouraging numbers and yes, of course, hours worked were down to the Omicron shock and the fact that more people have been getting more jobs. We can expect things to ramp up very quickly as we get the lifting of restrictions, the opening of international borders and get back to normal.
We’ve already got the borders open to those skilled moderate workers and backpackers … this is all about making sure we get more jobs back, maintain the growth and get that 4.8% figure potentially even down to a number starting with three.
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