Reference :- At last some good news about job creation . Perhaps .

 Reference :-   Over the past 6 months there have been over 734,000 new jobs created in Australia , we are told . 

This is indeed good news .  Out here in Kooralya  employment trends are different from those in the big smoke .  Fortunately cousin Nick is visiting for Christmas , and he has been filling us in regarding life in the metropolis .   The Sky Reply lads enjoy Nick's stories about the habits of city folk , which have been especially interesting during the fake pandemic .  

It's a rainy Christmas here , and we are annoyingly housebound .  Nick borrowed the ute to make a mercy run to the pub but got it bogged in the back yard .  . Gabbo points out that we are now experiencing  lockdown , despite being free of contagion .  There's not much to do here , so we watch a lot of television and take turns emptying  the saucepans that collect the drips from the leaky roof .

These days you can't trust the news , and 734,000 new jobs sounds a tad optimistic to me , but young Nick reckons the figure is probably correct .   He reckons he has three of those jobs himself ,  although apparently you have to have at least four jobs if you want to live in your own house . 

Ken junior said Nick must be pretty cashed up , what with all those jobs and their weekly pay cheques .  But Nick said he is broke .  Unfortunately he doesn't get holiday pay , and still has the rent and all his bills to cover while he kicks back and relaxes here in Kooralya .  

Nick is a fairly upbeat young chap , and he says that at least out here he doesn't have to spend money on  road tolls or 100 quid every week for petrol to commute between his trio of insecure jobs . 

"Well"  I said  " It looks like I will be saving on petrol myself now you've got the bloody ute bogged in the back yard ! " 

That's all for now , it's my turn to empty the saucepans . 

Your comrade , Ken .