Labor caught in pincer movement of fighting inflation and delivering to its constituency
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
During the election campaign Anthony Albanese repeated, endlessly, that everything was going up except people’s wages.
More than a year later, things are still going up, now including some people’s wages.
The latter increase is all good, surely? Yes, up to a point. There’s dispute about whether the (still modest and limited) wage...