Australia’s rat wheel economy won’t spew magic wage rises

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By Leith van Onselen

Following his stellar effort last week destroying Australia’s “just add people dogma” of mass immigration and a ‘Big Australia’, The Saturday Paper’s National Correspondent, Mike Seccombe, returned with another handy article shaming the Turnbull Government’s “jobs and growth” mantra:

The treasurer’s No. 1 boast related to job creation.

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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.