Australia was the first casualty in the currency war - like a time piece stopped dead at the moment of impact, our cash rates stuck at 2.50% while the industrialised nations jostle around the 0.0 - 0.5% mark.
So what if we pay 20AUD an hour for labour - competitiveness is all relative via exchange rate and the one major determinant of price pressure on AUD is cash rate.
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