Is neoliberalism dead? Ed Balls and Wayne Swan respond – Australian politics live podcast

‘I think it’s dead but I don’t think everyone has quite worked that out yet,’ Ed Balls, the former UK chancellor, says. He joins former Australian treasurer Wayne Swan to talk about the future of the global economy: if neoliberal ideals are not...

Unemployment is falling, but so are wages. It’s the latest of a very long slide | Greg Jericho

The latest wages figures released by the Bureau of Statistics revealed that Australians’ real wages continue to fall, and that in the past year wages grew by a record low 1.9% – and it also marked the 20th consecutive quarter of falling wages growth for...