Labor’s decision to launch its economic plan on a day when it would be eclipsed by the big news of a significant jump in inflation signals the party’s disengagement from the real economic picture.
Real wages for Australian workers have barely risen in a decade because the ending of the resources boom exposed the nation’s flatlining productivity performance.
Labor’s economic team: Jim Chalmers, Andrew Leigh and Katy Gallagher at Wednesday’s press conference in Canberra.The economic policy unveiled by the party on Wednesday would do nothing to fix any of this, and in places would make it worse. The work of star Labor recruit Andrew Charlton as an independent economist brings a reality check to Labor policies. He says that
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