Can Albanese government wring consensus from union-business impasse over industrial relations?
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The escalating cost of living is your ally when you’re an opposition seeking election, but when you’re in office, it’s a rampaging beast to manage, economically and politically.
Labor railed about real wages stagnating under the Coalition. Now grappling with rising inflation, the Albanese government has had to tell people to...