Hi Indy,

" I'd be the first to put up my hand for no increase if nothing else increases either." YOU are big on workers making a sacrifice, no pay increase for them. Well, how about YOU set the ball rolling by returning all those pension increases YOU have received over the past 20 years. Not likely, as you once protested, the pension increase is not enough to buy me an extra schooner, down at gods waiting room!

A lesson in high school economics, INFLATION two kinds.

1. Cost Inflation; Where input costs like raw materials, labour etc are increasing, reducing profit margins, so up goes prices.

2. Demand Inflation; Where demand for good and services are increasing faster than the economy can provide them, so up goes prices.

There is also hyper-inflation cause when a currency loses it value, and the government prints more money. Or the government is borrowing and spending too much. Not something Australia is concerned with.

Paul1405,
Typical Jargon waffle. Your first line ; labour etc are increasing, reducing profit margins, so up goes prices. You don't say !
It's not labour costs increasing, it's DEI bureaucrats & other hangers-on that drive up costs, not the workers.
Just look at the recent Parliamentarian salaries increases. Totally & utterly unwarranted & did nothing except drive up costs for everyone else ! That's not management, that's blatant incompetence nothing short of criminal !

Hi Indy,

If YOU had listened to the Reserve Bank Governor Michele Bullock yesterday, you would realise that Australia with a very strong economy is suffering from mainly demand inflation, plus the economic volatility caused by external factors like the ME war, thanks to Donald Trump. The biggest spending government in Australia's history was the Morrison government during Covid, that's a fact. ScumO' and his Treasurer Josh Friedbrain panicked and over stimulated the economy, with a trillion dollars of debt, which push inflation to 8%, we are still recovering from that debacle of very poor economic management.

Interesting that Michele Bullock with her $1.2 million salary package said she checks the price of petrol as she drives along the road (what in the back seat of her government provided chauffeured driven Roller) . Must be looking for where's petrol is cheapest for the little people! Oh one of the poor battlers looking out for the rest of us!

Paul1405,
All the jargon waffling weaving & ducking doesn't alter the fact the money market is corruption plus ! Too much is going into the accounts of the least deserving ! I'm not ok with someone earning $400,000 - & $ 1 Million + & incurring costs doubling that figure for what in return ? To say they don't know what a biological woman is or "don't know" where millions have gone ?
You might not have any qualms about it because you obviously don't have to prove merit otherwise you wouldn't defend the appalling culture ! Keep them in the dark & feed them mushrooms is gradually becoming very visible & people are getting tired of the diet !
My beer gut tells me something will have to give before long ! Pauline's certainly got the script ready for the play to begin !

Hi Indy,

"Pauline's certainly got the script ready for the play to begin." I can't share your enthusiasm on that one. Me thinks the Lovely Pauline is going to introduce a new arm of the law, not only will there be the Thought Police, there is going to be the Talk Police, anyone caught talking "wog" in public or in private, is going to be deported!

BTW "feed them mushrooms" obviously YOU don't understand Aussie culture, YOU don't feed the bullsh!t mushrooms, you feed the mushrooms bullsh!t, get it right or out YOU go!

"My beer gut" YOU wouldn't have a beer gut, if it wasn't for us taxpayers, and all those generous rises we gave you for your aged welfare. Another schooner for YOU, down at gods waiting room!

Mushrooms & Bull$hit
Paul1405,
Yeah, got that back to front but it doesn't make any difference in the scheme of the idiocy from the Leftards sane folk have to contend with. Your avoiding of sensible debate just shows everyone how hypocritical & parasitic you are. You rant about Pensioners but paying useless bureaucrats immoral amounts plus costing us many times more in actual incompetence doesn't seem to worry you the least. Am I correct in assuming you're one prize example of a bureaucrat ? The wrecking of Australian society doesn't concern you either because you're more than likely part of the movement. At least you come across like that ! I don't really care what the parasitic "experts & advisors & financial consultants" state, I maintain that bringing salaries from the top down would solve many economic problems as that'll bring low ages up without actually having to go up