Monday 16 January 2023

Australia news live: floodwaters cut major Queensland highway; wage growth ‘fastest since 2013’

Rising floodwaters have cut north Queensland’s main transport corridor, the Bruce Highway, with more rain on the way. Follow the day’s news live

The twitter of Chris Bowen, minister for climate change and energy, seems to have been taken over by his team for a birthday tribute.

In a lovely spam of behind-the-scenes pictures, Bowen pats a camel, is engrossed in a book called Thelma The Unicorn, and gleefully rests on a pillow.

The current wages growth is a result of a strong economy and low unemployment Labor has inherited from the Coalition. When the Coalition came to government in 2013 the unemployment rate left by Labor was 5.7%. Under the Coalition’s prudent economic management and focus on growing the economy to create jobs, and despite having just experienced a once in a century and the associated economic shock, it was 3.7% when we left office.

Under Labor wages have failed to keep pace with the skyrocketing cost of living. As we have seen time and time again, Labor governments get the big economic calls wrong. When the inflation rate called for fiscal restraint, they spent more. After almost a year in office with the benefit of the strong economy they inherited, Labor still doesn’t have a plan to address the cost of living increases that all Australians are feeling.

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