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Australia's youth employment crisis - a result of COVID-19 or nothing new?

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The precarious employment situation of young Australians was thrown into sharp relief by the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, but Aussie experts say this is nothing new and not a result of COVID-19. They analysed labour patterns for young Australians over the past five years, and say that employment issues among young Australians predate the pandemic. Declaring 'new' crises for young people through the media or research obscures the deeper structural problems that mean the young continually bear the brunt of social and economic policies, they conclude.

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