Media Release: Record number of jobs created as economy strengthens

Date published : 9  December  2010 

A record number of 300,000 full-time jobs have been created in 2010 - the largest increase in full-time employment ever recorded in a calendar year, Minister for Jobs, Senator Chris Evans, said today. Welcoming today's Australian Bureau of Statistics labour force figures, Senator Evans said a record number of Australians were now in full-time work. "This is an outstanding result. We have seen the creation of 54,600 jobs in November and for the first time, more than 8 million Australians are in full-time work," he said. "Even with a month to go, we have already achieved record levels of full-time job creation in 2010.

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