Here's the truth of the matter about unemployment

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So, the Australian Bureau of Statistics told us this week, the rate of unemployment fell a click to 5.6 per cent in July. Trouble is, most people know the official unemployment rate understates the extent of the problem.

Wage growth will strengthen, and soon

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There's been a sound economic justification – the need to restore our industries' international price competitiveness - for our weak wage growth over the past three or four years.

The award for weak wages growth goes to ...

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Since we've all got so excited about the weak growth in wages, let me ask you a personal question: How much do you know about how wages are set?

Higher employment our payoff for avoiding recession

When Boris Johnson, Britain's Foreign Minister, visited Oz lately, he implied that our record 26-year run of uninterrupted economic growth was owed largely to the good fortune of our decade-long resources boom.

Jobs being taken by robots? Where's your evidence

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One problem to remember before we work ourselves into a complete tizz over the War on Wages.

Last charge of the rate-rise brigade

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Do you realise the Reserve Bank board hasn't changed Australia's official interest rate from 1.5 per cent for almost a year? But that hasn't stopped people in the financial markets from speculating furiously about whether rates are about to go down – or go up.

Big business influence wanes as public rejects 'bizonomics'

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Behind the demise of the pseudo-economic belief that what's good for big business is good for the economy.

Human factor keeping jobs growth alive and well

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Despite the scare stories about the rise of the "gig economy", full-time jobs growth is surging.

Teaching too important to leave to teachers

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The more we enhance our natural capital and our human capital, the better placed we're likely to be.