Spare us the talk about a wages explosion. There’s nothing wrong with lifting Australia’s lowest wages in line with inflation
- Written by: Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Chay_Tee/ShutterstockWhat is it with the Coalition and wages?
When, in the final days of the 2022 election campaign, the then opposition leader Anthony Albanese backed an increase in award wages to keep pace with inflation, his opposite number in the Coalition, Prime Minister Scott Morrison called him a “loose unit”.
“He just runs...
