The Labor party believes voter concern about lagging wages will hurt the Coalition's re-election chances when the national poll is held by May this year. AusPol 9News
in an address to Labor MPs in Canberra attacked the Morrison Government's broken pledges on wage increases.
The previous budget update predicted wage growth of 2.25 per cent this financial year but inflation of 2.75 per cent, meaning wages falling in real terms before rising next year. "This is a government that attacks penalty rates, that supports insecure work, supports small business casualisation, that won't even say when we've asked them in the Parliament if they support people getting the minimum wage."Earlier today, Labor front bencher Bill Shorten told Today that cost-of-living pressures were a "giant issue" for Australian families.
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