Labor insists the national unemployment rate does not tell the full picture, as it seeks to recover from its leader's slip-up on economic figures. Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese was in Tasmania for a second day, campaigning in the marginal Labor electorate of Lyons. In Longford, a town in the state's north, he announced the restoration of Medicare support for bulk-billed telehealth psychiatric consultations for regional patients. Lyons is held by Labor MP Brian Mitchell by a margin of 5.2 per cent. If elected an Albanese government would reinstate a 50 per cent regional loading to the video consultations. Funding the medical care will cost $31.3 million over four years, and is expected to support 450,000 consultations during that period - or more than 1.4 million appointments over 10 years. Mr Albanese sought to move on from Monday's gaffe when he was unable to recall the unemployment rate or official interest rate. He arrived in Melbourne on Tuesday afternoon, before visiting an inner-city charity in the safe Labor seat of Macnamara with MP Josh Burns and Labor candidate for Higgins, Michelle Ananda-Rajah. Mr Albanese met with priest Father Bob Maguire at his foundation in South Melbourne to announce a $300,000 election pledge for the organisation which helps thousands of struggling people experiencing homelessness and disadvantage with food and other support. Mr Burns said the funding would ensure vulnerable people continue accessing financial help and basic support. Father Bob invoked Star Trek during the visit and told reporters "the mob" being the people, needed to "go where no one has gone before" into "the future of this democracy". Shadow treasurer Jim Chalmers argues the four per cent unemployment rate does not paint the full economic picture of Australia. "It doesn't tell the whole story of the labour market," he told ABC Radio. "The defining feature of the labour market right now is the fact that even though we've got the unemployment rather falling in welcome ways, we're still not generating the real wages growth that we need. "The government doesn't have a plan to deal with the skill shortages and labour shortages." The shadow treasurer also laughed off suggestions from the coalition that Labor's policies would cost $300 billion over 10 years. "If only (the government) spent as much time tracking their own spending as they send making up stories about our spending," he said. "They sit around all the time worrying about making up stories about Labor's costing." Labor has promised to release its costings later in the election campaign. When asked about Labor's plan to get workers employed in casual positions into permanent work, Mr Albanese said the term "secure work" needed to be defined as an objective of the Fair Work Act. "We see nothing wrong with casual work," he said. "But we do think that we shouldn't pretend that someone who is working a permanent job with the same shifts permanently every week ... should be classified that way." A Senate estimates hearing was told, before the election was called, there had been a reduction in the levels of casual employees. Casual workers made up 24.4 per cent of the workforce in 1996, but that had since dropped to 22.8 per cent. However the ACTU estimates Australia has one of the highest rates of "insecure work" in the OECD. Australian Associated Press