Is Australia’s income drought about to break?

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From The Australian:

Booming commodity prices have sent company profits soaring and promise to ease the government’s budget woes, although the profit bonanza is yet to flow through to wages.

Business racked up a record $63.9 billion pre-tax profit in the final three months of last year, which was a massive $25.8bn leap from the previous quarter.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.