“Over the last 10 years, we've actually seen wages increase by around 30 per cent and inflation increase by around 20 per cent. Certainly, wages haven't grown as fast as people might like, but wages have grown steadily over that period of time.”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
Ms O'Dwyer's claim is not the full story. She is entitled to claim that wages have grown, in nominal terms, by about 30 per cent over a decade, outstripping inflation of about 20 per cent over the same period. However, whether growth has been "steady" is less clear. Wages have generally (although not always) grown more quickly than inflation on an annual basis, and with less volatility than other economic variables such as company profits. However, the gains of the past 10 years have been hea...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Kelly O'Dwyer (Minister for Jobs and Industrial Relations) made this claim around 23 October 2018. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 1 November 2018, 9 days later. Its rating was “Not the full story”.
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