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  • Unemployment reporting: from RNZ and not biased against National

    From Crash@nogood@dontbother.invalid to nz.general on Thu Nov 6 10:29:14 2025
    From Newsgroup: nz.general

    https://tinyurl.com/2xz7fgo7https://tinyurl.com/2xz7fgo7

    The interesting thing about this article is that it reports the facts
    and there is no mention of the opposition parties.

    While the number of unemployed is 160,000 is the highest since 1994
    (when it peaked at 9.1%) , that was based on a population of 3.6
    million rather than over 5 million we have today. So it is the
    percentage, not the raw number, that gives context.

    The published response from Willis clearly illustrates the problem
    National has in getting the right message out. She does not mention
    that unemployment numbers will show an increase when the axe is swung
    on a civil service that became bloated on the back of the previous
    government increasing government spending by increasing government
    debt to cover it. Perhaps she thought this was not worth mentioning
    because it is too complicated. Perhaps the axe on the civil service
    has not produced any substantial head-count reduction.

    Of greater note was that after reporting the numbers there was nothing
    included from Labour is particular or the Greens, Maori Party,ACT or
    NZF.
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  • From Gordon@Gordon@leaf.net.nz to nz.general on Wed Nov 5 23:37:59 2025
    From Newsgroup: nz.general

    On 2025-11-05, Crash <nogood@dontbother.invalid> wrote:
    https://tinyurl.com/2xz7fgo7https://tinyurl.com/2xz7fgo7

    The interesting thing about this article is that it reports the facts
    and there is no mention of the opposition parties.

    While the number of unemployed is 160,000 is the highest since 1994
    (when it peaked at 9.1%) , that was based on a population of 3.6
    million rather than over 5 million we have today. So it is the
    percentage, not the raw number, that gives context.

    The published response from Willis clearly illustrates the problem
    National has in getting the right message out. She does not mention
    that unemployment numbers will show an increase when the axe is swung
    on a civil service that became bloated on the back of the previous
    government increasing government spending by increasing government
    debt to cover it. Perhaps she thought this was not worth mentioning
    because it is too complicated. Perhaps the axe on the civil service
    has not produced any substantial head-count reduction.

    Of greater note was that after reporting the numbers there was nothing included from Labour is particular or the Greens, Maori Party,ACT or
    NZF.

    Good point, one would have expected the other parties to have something to
    say. Maybe, this because there is nothing to say and the improvement is
    going to speak for itself.

    ""Labour tends to be a lagging indicator of where the economic cycle is at. Anecdotally, even now, not so long after these numbers were drawn from, there's a sense that things even on the employment front are a little
    better.""

    This aspect needs to be explained to the people, things do not happen over night an the labour market is on of the last indicators to show recovery.
    There is a great proportion who think that the period of the cycle is about
    two days.
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