Wry & Dry #23-26 Married bliss, and then… Pauline’s $100,000 pay rise. Keating’s RDS.

Uncle Albo’s post honeymoon social-media-ban-celebration crashed on the rocks of a travel rorts scandal. Quisling Barnaby gifts a pay rise. Paul Keating’s RDS returns in time for Christmas. Trumpster is about to toss the toys out of the White House cot.
Unemployment rate & Emeco deep dive

This week, a new set of ABS Labour Force data was added to the plethora of economic data released in recent weeks. Once again, the impact on RBA interest rate decisions was to the fore.
This month, the unemployment rate held steady at 4.3%, but the number of people working fell by 21,000.
So what happened?