The Albanese government blew its shot at setting a historic new unemployment target
- Written by Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the federal government’s employment white paper is “ambitious”. I’m not convinced.
A clearly ambitious statement would have specified a target for unemployment, ideally one that was a bit of a stretch.
The Keating Labor government’s Working Nation statement did that in 1994....