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Lifting the minimum wage is anything but reckless – it's what low earners need

  • Written by Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Stand by for something “reckless and dangerous”.

That’s what former prime minister Scott Morrison said Prime Minister Anthony Albanese would be if he asked the Fair Work Commission to grant a wage rise big enough to cover inflation. It would make Albanese a “loose unit” on the economy.

Yet Albanese and his...

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