Australia Institute paper says workers are being forced to pay ‘through rising unemployment and further real wage cuts’
“Rising profits are not the source of the inflation pressures we have,” Lowe told the National Press Club last week.
While most fossil fuel products are not directly bought by Australians, they are inputs to the production of other goods and services, affecting prices for manufacturers, housing, transport and other services. “They started chain reactions that have since spread into broader, persistent inflationary pressures.”
The thinktank notes that there is evidence the window for profiteering is closing, as pent-up demand subsides and high fossil fuel prices abate.
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