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It's not just the ABS. It's also the Productivity Commission downplaying the growth in inequality

  • Written by Christopher Sheil, Visiting Senior Fellow in History, UNSW
It's not just the ABS. It's also the Productivity Commission downplaying the growth in inequalityThe statistics show the wealthiest households are getting a growing share of household wealth. The Productivity Commission is trying to tell us they are not.Shutterstock/ABS

We now know the Bureau of Statistics did quite a bit of soul-searching before producing the bland and ultimately misleading press release headed “Inequality Stable Since...

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