Your reply escapes me, moving disability people who are not included in official unemployment stats. to newstart which are! included in unemployment figures will increase the offical unemployment rate , What has labour or the greens got to do with it? imo how is the govt going to explain a savage rise in the unemployment rate ? For years both labour and the libs have hidden the true rate, behind the disability pension and a myriad of other stats, probably in the region of 1.5 mil. persons ,The shit has finally hit the wall!!