In this week’s episode, James and Anthony dive into another bad week for Qantas, look behind the firestorm sparked by property developer Tim Gurner.
But what’s at the heart of this is this idea of inequality ... We’ve seen it in the Commonwealth Bank results where they talked about older savers doing really well and young mortgagees under the cosh.
You can look around everywhere this week and see these similar issues. We saw the Greens extracting another $1 billion out of the government for the housing affordability fund and saying next stop is rent controls. These “us against them”, “poor versus rich”, “labour versus capital” power struggles are absolutely everywhere. And I think poor old Tim Gurner walked into a firestorm.Productivity is a big issue across the entire economy. It’s one of the things that [Philip Lowe] always banged on about.I mean, he tells us that tradies have pulled back on their productivity and, and he should know.
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