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Will transitioning economy lead to sustainable jobs?

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull describes our economy as being ‘in transition’.

This means we are trying to recover from the sudden end of the mining boom and workers from the resource sector into other areas, like services.

The government says they generated 300,000 new jobs in 2015, but if these jobs providing the work people need?

Story features: Dr Jim Stanford, Director of the Centre for Future Work at the Australia Institute

Image: ‘Mc Donald’s’ by jshyun on Flickr

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