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October 23rd, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Federal minister Bill Shorten gets more excited about job numbers than poll results and believes ordinary Australians feel the same way.
As federal Labor languishes at near record low levels of popularity, the Gillard government is presiding over an economy with relatively low unemployment.
“When you get up in the morning, you can look at the polls or you can look at the job numbers,” the assistant treasurer told ABC Television on Sunday.
While jobs numbers do not seem to be as sexy these days, they still excite Mr Shorten.
Low unemployment and movement on such issues as superannuation, the national broadband network and a disability insurance scheme were the “numbers and facts” which mattered to households and small business.
“Not the polls.”
Mr Shorten said Prime Minister Julia Gillard had his support despite reports he and other Labor Right powerbrokers confronted the prime minister following a cabinet decision to reject Nauru as an option for the offshore processing of asylum seekers.
There are reports some senior ministers have lost faith in Ms Gillard’s leadership and are considering alternative options to head off a possible return to the top job by Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd, dumped by Labor last year.
Meanwhile, Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese said the government’s low ratings in the opinion polls show it needs to tell it’s story better to voters.
But Mr Albanese disagrees with former Labor prime minister Paul Keating who said this weekend Labor had lacked an overarching or compelling story since it won power in 2007.
“I’m a big fan of Paul, but I don’t agree with that particular assessment,” Mr Albanese told Sky News on Sunday.
“Where he’s right, of course, is any consideration of where we’re at in the polls has to acknowledge that we need to have told our story better.
“There’s no question about that.”
Mr Albanese said the government is constantly dealing with the 24 hour news cycle.
“We need to be pretty disciplined, I think, about staying on issues rather than saying `Tick, that issue’s done. Let’s move on to the next issue’,” he said.
He said the $36 billion high-speed national broadband network was an example of a great policy the government had to talk about.
Mr Albanese also responded to Mr Keating’s comment that the partnership between the Greens and Labor was not beneficial to either party.
“I think it’s the case, except for one term of the Howard government, that governments have always had to negotiate with the minor parties,” he said.
“If you look at a whole range of issues there are major difference between us and the Greens.”
Mr Albanese said the circumstances surrounding the resignation last week of Commonwealth Ombudsman Alan Asher was an example of the differences between Labor and the Greens.
Mr Asher resigned on Thursday after admitting he’d fed questions to Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young to ask during a parliamentary estimates hearing in May.
“This was extraordinary that they (the Greens) were out there in such a self-righteous way given the role that they had played in the downfall of the Ombudsman,” Mr Albanese said.
“Did they respond by stepping back a little bit and perhaps acknowledging that they had acted inappropriately? No. They got on the front foot.”
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