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22nd Man

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The main concern for me in the economy is the lack of wages growth. Wages growth has slowed significantly in the last few years whilst inequality of income has increased. What that means is that wages growth is low and what growth there is is skewed to higher incomes.

I think the digital / globalisation of so many jobs is starting to really have an impact on wages. Any white collar job that doesn't need direct contact with a customer can be offshore d....so the bargaining power of someone on such a job at day $80k is effectively competing with someone in the Philpines on 25 or 30k.. .. However any job in public sector or ones like health which are taxpayer funded or subsided are less constrained.
 

Sintiger

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Wage growth has declined from around 4% to 2% in the past decade. Low, but still ahead of inflation.
Unfortunately so has the Gini coefficient gone up which measures the distribution of income. We are paying more to less and less to more.
Wages growth was more like 4 % in the noughties.
There is too much slack in the labour market and as others have said a lot of underemployment which mask the unemployment figures
 

scottyturnerscurse

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The myth of the Libs as good economic managers is just that. They are economic illiterates

Not true. Both parties are subject to external forces they can’t control. Libs just better at selling themselves as the economically responsible mob.
 
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22nd Man

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And don't under estimate the impact of large scale migration....most migrants aren't targeting the highest paying jobs and are willing / easily coerced into accepting under award pay just to secure employment.
 

tigerman

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And don't under estimate the impact of large scale migration....most migrants aren't targeting the highest paying jobs and are willing / easily coerced into accepting under award pay just to secure employment.
A large percentage would include the tens of thousands of illegal migrants who have arrived here on bogus 457 visas for jobs which didn't exist.
They all enter the work force and then become permanent residents. I still don't know why there hasn't been a royal commission into it..................but hey they stopped the boats.

 
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tigertim

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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
- Teddy Roosevelt.
Cool quote, I might take it over to the Jayden Short thread......
 
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eZyT

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See there's a NSW right winger MP called

Matthew Mason-Cox?

how strange. He wouldn't look out of place beside Collingwood's version

in the circus either.

he does chinless pinhead very well.

Seems like another oxygen thief whose been drawing pay for 15 years and never actually done anything.
 

spook

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Jun 18, 2007
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Not true. Both parties are subject to external forces they can’t control. Libs just better at selling themselves as the economically responsible mob.
Sorry, that's just not true. The parties have different philosophies, different approaches and different results. It's not a coincidence that Labor took over an economy from John Howard ranked 9th in the world after the greatest mining boom in history. The next year the GFC happened, and the Labor Government was praised worldwide for its proactive stimulus package that kept Australia out of recession while the rest of the world struggled. It was hailed as world's best economic practice.
The Australian economy was ranked 3rd in 2008, 1st in 2009, 4th in 2010, 1st in 2011, 1st in 2012 and 1st in 2013. Then the Libs took over: 3rd in 2014, 9th in 2015, 13th in 2016, 18th in 2017, 21st in 2018. The national debt has more than doubled in the past six years. This government is responsible for more debt than every previous federal government combined. They take money from important social programs and cultural institutions and put it in the pockets of rich individuals and corporations. They are both corrupt and incompetent. And liars. But they have the Murdoch press and commercial television and a cowed ABC selling their lies and lying about the alternatives.
 
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tigerman

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Sorry, that's just not true. The parties have different philosophies, different approaches and different results. It's not a coincidence that Labor took over an economy from John Howard ranked 9th in the world after the greatest mining boom in history. The next year the GFC happened, and the Labor Government was praised worldwide for its proactive stimulus package that kept Australia out of recession while the rest of the world struggled. It was hailed as world's best economic practice.
The Australian economy was ranked 3rd in 2008, 1st in 2009, 4th in 2010, 1st in 2011, 1st in 2012 and 1st in 2013. Then the Libs took over: 3rd in 2014, 9th in 2015, 13th in 2016, 18th in 2017, 21st in 2018. The national debt has more than doubled in the past six years. This government is responsible for more debt than every previous federal government combined. They take money from important social programs and cultural institutions and put it in the pockets of rich individuals and corporations. They are both corrupt and incompetent. And liars. But they have the Murdoch press and commercial television and a cowed ABC selling their lies and lying about the alternatives.

Yeah but, but, but, the Libs always tell us they're the best at managing the economy.
They lucked in with the economy thanks to Hawke and Keating, the GST was a cash cow, and they hardly spent a cent on infrastructure.
Speaking of infrastructure, what did Howard and Costello spend on infrastructure, what did they build?
 
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shad

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Housing is included in the index. And of course, our mortgages have reduced in the past 5 years

So do you reckon housing, which accounts for upwards of 25% of peoples' budgets has only gone up by 2% a year in the last decade? That doesn't make sense to me.
 

lukeanddad

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So do you reckon housing, which accounts for upwards of 25% of peoples' budgets has only gone up by 2% a year in the last decade? That doesn't make sense to me.
Housing is 23% of the 'basket'.

Rates have moved from ~9% in '08 to <5% in 2019. So, if you could borrow $500k back then ($3.9k/mth repayment for interest only), you can afford $900k now. In addition, house prices have come off in the past two years by ~15% - from admittedly a ridiculous level
 
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Giardiasis

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Low inflation is a function of a stagnant economy. Our economy would be going backwards (recession) were it not for one thing: immigration.
The greatest period of wealth creation in human history, which occurred during the 1800s actually saw price deflation. The idea that we are currently experiencing low inflation is a complete myth, have you not seen what has happened to asset prices such as houses and stocks? Inflation is an increase in the money supply relative to the demand for money not bogus government concocted CPI figures.
 
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HR

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Sorry, that's just not true. The parties have different philosophies, different approaches and different results. It's not a coincidence that Labor took over an economy from John Howard ranked 9th in the world after the greatest mining boom in history. The next year the GFC happened, and the Labor Government was praised worldwide for its proactive stimulus package that kept Australia out of recession while the rest of the world struggled. It was hailed as world's best economic practice.
The Australian economy was ranked 3rd in 2008, 1st in 2009, 4th in 2010, 1st in 2011, 1st in 2012 and 1st in 2013. Then the Libs took over: 3rd in 2014, 9th in 2015, 13th in 2016, 18th in 2017, 21st in 2018. The national debt has more than doubled in the past six years. This government is responsible for more debt than every previous federal government combined. They take money from important social programs and cultural institutions and put it in the pockets of rich individuals and corporations. They are both corrupt and incompetent. And liars. But they have the Murdoch press and commercial television and a cowed ABC selling their lies and lying about the alternatives.
You still watching that plasma tv spook?
 

Giardiasis

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not sure why this is in the politics thread?

i was expecting a post from you outlining why the conservative governments proposed ban on secondary boycotts is an affront to people's liberty.
Couldn’t dig up a privatise the ABC thread or the crazy harpies thread. What they are discussing is political, as is the question of what to do with the ABC. Any comments on it, or was it all fairly reasonable to you?
 
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Brodders17

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Couldn’t dig up a privatise the ABC thread or the crazy harpies thread. What they are discussing is political, as is the question of what to do with the ABC. Any comments on it, or was it all fairly reasonable to you?
i havent seen it. heard some of the comments but dont have the context. at the least it appears the show should have had opposing views.

any view on the secondary boycott views the libs want to bring in?
 

Giardiasis

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i havent seen it. heard some of the comments but dont have the context. at the least it appears the show should have had opposing views.

any view on the secondary boycott views the libs want to bring in?
I provided a link, watch for yourself.

I’m not really sure how you would make boycott’s illegal, but it’s not something I’d support. Sounds like another example of the Liberals showing their true socialist colours.