Jobs promise heading for failure

Who remembers Labor promising over and over again before the last election that they would create 100,000 new full time jobs within two years – their so-called “Back to Work” plan?

Well, Labor have admitted today they’re unlikely to deliver on their promise. In fact, the key part of their policy – subsidising employers to take on long term unemployed – has created barely 5,000 new jobs.

To add insult to injury, Labor’s Treasurer, Tim Pallas, is now claiming their 100,000 full time jobs promise was not a promise at all, it was a “stretch target”! If you can’t keep a promise, you should at least have the decency to admit it, instead of pretending you never made the promise in the first place.