An economy sliding sideways

No evidence in today’s Australian Bureau of Statistics employment figures of a healthily growing economy. I’ll settle on the aggregate monthly hours worked figures to tell the story.
monthly hours worked
It has been a real sideways slide.
This May’s budget will be a difficult event for Joe Hockey to negotiate.

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