Unemployment surges to 12-year high at 6.4 per cent; youth jobless figure hits 14 pc

 Bats in the Belfry Moment

 The 740,000 people looking for work in this country will upload their resumes, and the app will auto-apply for 40 jobs every month, to comply with prime minister Tony Abbott’s fanciful demand. It’s a poorly disguised crack-down on people he believes are “rorting the system”.

It’s such a bad idea, even business groups are alarmed. The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry said, “what we don’t want to do is to flood the business community with a whole range of job applications just for the sake of people fulfilling their requirements.”

Those under 30 looking for jobs will get zero support from the government for six months at a time but still have to apply for 40 jobs every month.

The unemployed don’t need lectures from Abbott, they need a government that is more interested in creating jobs than counting the number of CVs being sent out. Businesses don’t want to drown in job applications, they need a government equipping the future workforce with the skills to make it easier to hire people, not harder.