"But it's so much easier to blame wages or productivity! How...

"But it's so much easier to blame wages or productivity! How would Alan Jones and his likes like to take a massive pay cut? "

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There's not one person (including me) here who would willingly offer up substantial pay cuts.

You can talk about MRRTs or Carbon Taxes or red or green tape until the cows come home but thats just dancing around the margins.

If we want to be truly competitive with broke (note they are broke) third world countries then WE ALL need to take MASSIVE pay cuts. Its that simple.

This is not an ideological issue.... its a self interest issue. People will simply not vote for a government that would remove a minimum wage or facilitate a system that drive wages down.