[Link] Why are millions of unemployed people excluded from our monthly 'unemployment' data?

Read: 17/10/2021 www.abc.net.au

Do you scratch your head when you hear the government talking about the unemployment rate? Currently, the unemployment rate is just 4.6 per cent.

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[Link] With few forms delivered, many residents in this remote community knew nothing about the census

Read: 15/8/2021 www.abc.net.au

Local worker shortages and COVID restrictions preventing fly-in census staff have been blamed for forms not reaching many people in Western Australia's north.

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[Link] Why isn't the census translated into languages other than English?

Read: 9/8/2021 www.abc.net.au

Back in Shanghai, Xueli Zhao was a hospital doctor. Now living alone in a public housing flat in Melbourne's inner-east, 84-year-old Dr Zhao relies heavily on her children to communicate with various authorities as she is lacking English language skills.

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