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I helped write the Productivity Commission's 5-year productivity review: here's what I think Australia should do

  • Written by Stephen King, Professor, Monash University
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Australia is a living testament to the benefits of productivity growth.

An average worker today puts in 14 fewer hours per week and takes home a real wage six times that of the average worker in 1901 – all because we are producing more per hour worked.

And yet in the past decade that rate of improvement has slowed.

Over the 60...

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