JBowyer,
If, as you think, the recession has already started, now's the ideal time for a new government because they can safely do the exact opposite of what you think they have to! For instance, instead of raiding every saver, they could follow Rudd's example and credit them $900.

Hoovernomics (trying to balance the budget in a recession) doesn't work: it shrinks the economy and turns the recession into a depression. But massive deficit spending does work - it quickly revives the private sector by giving them more opportunities to make money. It works even better if the money is spent on things that will improve our future productivity, such as infrastructure.

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Sorry for the typo. Here it is again:

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/nov/12/australian-men-earn-213-more-than-their-female-colleagues-review-finds

“Total rubbish” barks the termagant, then uses The Guardian as an example of ‘research’. Does she really think that people are going take any notice of someone who uses MSM only - extreme left at that - for ‘research’? Sadly, the answer is yes. Small mind; small life.

To get back to the theme of this thread, I wonder if its instigator, SJW and champion of workers that he thinks he is, gave any thought to his dear leader, Richard di Natale, and that paragon of virtue’s record on employing au pairs, and how much he paid .

Tsk, tsk, tsk...

Here's more on the gender pay gap:

http://www.wgea.gov.au/topics/gender-pay-gap

Aiden, exciting news if we get Shorten and especially if he gives me any money! My memory was Rudd took us from a surplus to a massive deficit with his free money? Of course being 71 I don't care, the debt can be paid by your Grandchildren.
I have certainly been impressed with the infrastructure spending in Australia of late but thank goodness for "Commercial in confidence". Without that the punters might have some concerns with adding to the deficit.
Then if we close coal plants down, quadruple electricity prices and commensurately increase gas prices we will get rid of so much manufacturing and food processing.This will reduce our carbon footprint and save the the world?
What are the chances of us being in so much debt that China builds it's own power stations here, farms and processes the food here and reduces your grandchildren to mendicants in their own land?
Bring on Billy Shorten I say although I suggest he has someone take out any words containing TH in his speeches.

Bill Shorten is talking big on wage increases as an election bribe. Now we all know wages are stagnant, and that prices are going up while pay and pensions are not. But growth that might enable better wage outcomes is pretty stagnant too. Despite mass immigration, GDP has barely moved - and per capita GDP is dead as it always is with mass immigration. There is a slowdown in the U.S, and China is adopting a Cold War attitude on trade. People are already talking 'recession'.

Not a good time at all to be looking for higher wages and complaining about inexperienced, unprepared youngsters not getting enough money when they are really not worth the minimum wage as it is.