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Youth unemployed need tough love, says Tony Abbott

The Australian

April 17, 2014

TONY Abbott told an audience of leading employers that old-fashioned tough love could help solve the youth-unemployment crisis.

Recalling working in a pub and earning cash for manual labour jobs, the Prime Minister told the Generation Success forum in Sydney: “You have to be prepared to have a go, work hard and don’t believe any job is beneath you. We all have to start somewhere.”

The forum was organised by Woolworths with support from News Corp Australia, publisher of The Australian, as youth unemployment is above 12 per cent, twice the national average.
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Long-term youth unemployment triples since financial crisis

The AustralianApril 14, 2014

THE number of long-term unemployed young people has trebled since the global financial crisis and has grown fastest over the past year, new analysis from a national welfare charity has found.

Data compiled by the Brotherhood of St Laurence shows that one of the key indicators — length of time spent without work — is heading for the “worst-case scenario”. The unemployment rate for people aged 15 to 24 is more than double the national average at 12.5 per cent — and the proportion of those who had spent a year or more out of work now accounts for almost one-fifth of all the unemployed youth.
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