Factcheck: did the Coalition create 1.9 million jobs? Will it create 1.3 million more?

The Coalition government’s pledge to create 1.3m jobs ‘is not significant’ since labour force growth would add a comparable number anyway, economists say. Photograph: Con Chronis/AAP

Australia’s jobs rebound since the Covid recession has been a big part of the Coalition’s re-election pitch.

On Tuesday the Morrison government committed “to create 1.3 million new jobs over the next five years”, on top of the “1.9 million new jobs” created since the Coalition was elected in 2013.