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Assorted links from around the traps:
inequality
What is the typical Australian’s income in 2013?
A couple of years ago, the government changed the rules so that families on $150 000 a year or more wouldn’t be eligible to receive family payments. There were the predictable cries of ‘class warfare’, but there were also claims that $150 000 in Australia leaves you struggling to make ends meet.
Capitalism: unequal by design
The capitalist system must maintain inequality as a function of the drive for profits writes Socialist Worker US.
ABC 702 with Richard Glover – Transcript
TRANSCRIPT – ABC702 WITH RICHARD GLOVER
Andrew Leigh MP
Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister
Member for Fraser
6 May 2013TOPICS Inequality, Australian egalitarianism
2CC with Mark Parton – Transcript
TRANSCRIPT – 2CC with Mark Parton
Andrew Leigh MP
Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister
Member for Fraser
6 May 2013TOPICS: Inequality, Australian egalitarianism, Liberal Party advertising
Sky AM Agenda Video and Transcript – 6th May 2013
I chatted with Kieran Gilbert and Senator Mitch Fifield about the Coalition’s divided stance on Paid Parental Leave, and about my research on inequality in Australia.
TRANSCRIPT – SKY AM AGENDA
Rising Inequality
The SMH, Age, Canberra Times and West
A disparate collection of links for urbanists
Tom Tom congestion index, Sydney
Myths of the moocher class in Australia
David Uren’s piece in the Australian today has some pretty eye-catching figures:
…nobody starts to pay tax until their earnings exceed $18,200, but the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows that 60 per cent of all households receive more in cash benefits than they pay in tax.
Labour’s shrinking share
How would we know if we were having a wages breakout? Back in the 70s, there was a period in which wages rose faster than productivity, leaving a situation that some economists dubbed a “real wage overhang”. This, I believe, is what people are talking about when they warn of a “breakout” – an inflationary burst of wages growth well in excess of productivity growth.