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Up Late with Ben Harvey: The 12,000 WA ‘Jobseekers’ who never went back to work

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VideoWATCH NOW: In Up Late tonight, Ben Harvey calls bulls**t on WA’s skills crisis. https://bit.ly/3nzHmS8

In tonight’s show, Harvey calls out the 12,000 West Australians who went on the dole after COVID hit and decided they just didn’t want to go back to work.

He dives into Centrelink figures, and newspaper archives, to call bulls**t on the skills crisis which has left WA short 55,000 workers.

And Harvey calls for voting in local government elections to be compulsory as a way to stop councils making ridiculous decisions.

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