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Grattan on Friday: economic life won’t get much better until Australians climb that productivity mountain

By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

To give a better understanding of where the Australian economy is at we asked two independent economists to give snapshots of our economic health – or lack of it.

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