Jobs in NDIS Are ‘Real Jobs’: Treasurer Backs Growth Figures

Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers has defended his government against criticism that as high as 40 percent of the million new jobs it boasts of creating during its first term are in the taxpayer-backed care sector. “Obviously, as the economy recovers, we want to see more jobs created in the private sector,” he told ABC Radio National, “But we need to recognise as well that care economy jobs are real jobs. I completely reject this sense that it’s only a real job if it’s not in the care economy. “In the context of our ageing population and all of the needs that we have, we want to see care economy workers respected. We are paying them more. We don’t want to see them respected less or paid less,” Chalmers said....