The economy’s prospects are threatened by various risks from overseas – about which we can do little – and by continuing weakness in wage growth – about which the two sides contesting the May federal election have little desire to talk.   In his major economic speech last week, Scott Morrison gave wages only a passing mention: … Continue reading ROSS GITTINS. Hey pollies: weak wage growth won’t fix itself. (SMH 4.2.2019)… Continue reading »