CANBERRA, ACT, Jan. 22 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript:

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Joint press conference with

The Hon Amanda Rishworth MP

Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations

Member for Kingston

Subjects: National Day of Mourning, labour force data, OECD report

Amanda Rishworth:

Thanks for joining us today. Before I discuss the labour force data that's just been released, I did want to acknowledge today is the National Day of Mourning and acknowledge the 15 Australians who were murdered on the 14th of December in the Bondi terrorist attack. The theme that the Chabad community in Bondi has chosen for tonight's gathering is Light will Win, and, indeed, I believe it will.

Now I will go to today's labour force data....