Slips spark dismay as leadership talk rises WAYNE Swan has stumbled over the nation's unemployment rate and the government's income tax plans as leadership tensions continue to simmer in an increasingly despondent Labor caucus. Mr Swan, who has put jobs and growth at the centre of the government's economic agenda, named the wrong figure, 5.1 per cent, for the current unemployment rate as he praised the economy's "outstanding" jobs creation performance. The correct figure is 5.4 per cent, a difference of about 30,000 jobs. Opposition Treasury spokesman Joe Hockey, who has made his own mistakes in the past week, pounced. I refer the Treasurer to his last answer where he said it was important to get the facts right. I refer him to the fact that he stated the current unemployment is 5.1 per cent. Would the Treasurer advise the house what the actual current unemployment rate is?