The author of a discussion paper that’s proposed a radical overhaul of Australia’s economic structures says the issue has been “unsuccessfully” managed over the past decade.

“We’ve had a decade with no real wage growth, at all, and now real wages are falling quickly,” Jim Stanford, Director of the Centre for Future Work, told Tom Elliott.

But what he’s proposed really caught Tom’s attention.

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