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Unions and small businesses on who’s to blame for inflation – Australian Politics podcast

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The Role of Profit in Inflation

The RBA raised interest rates and the Chamber of Commerce blamed that squarely on unions for their wage demands. Jim Chalmers says it's not fair to punish workers for a problem they didn't cause because workers wages didn't cause the inflation to begin with. I think it is one of the contributing factors to our inflation position, he says.

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