Weak wage growth, blame productivity

By Colin Brinsden
Updated February 17 2020 - 12:23am, first published 12:20am
The biggest fall in Australia's productivity was in the drought-affected agricultural sector.
The biggest fall in Australia's productivity was in the drought-affected agricultural sector.

Around half of the slowdown in wages growth in Australia is the result of weakening productivity, which is now going backwards for the first time since the mining boom, the Productivity Commission says.

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