Coalition launches WageCrusher

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Australians are being warned to prepare for years of slow or even negative real wages growth with fears the coronavirus recession will weigh on the economy and jobs market until the middle of the decade.

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg on Thursday is expected to confirm that wage growth – already slowing ahead of the pandemic – will crash to record low levels in a development that will hit the workers’ hip pockets and the budget bottom line.

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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.