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(Back) wages

It could be because the ABS' Wage Price Index (WPI) report only confirmed what you, I and Irene already knew all along, that wages growth had been slowing - up 2.6% in the December quarter (the slowest gain since 1997) - or have gone backwards when you factor in inflation of 2.7%.

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