Tim Robinson

“We’ve had a flat level of labour productivity for around a decade. Without it, the Australian economy can’t grow as fast without running into inflation issues, and people’s living standards don’t improve by as much as they did in the past,”

Tim Robinson · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-21

Robinson told Al Jazeera that flat labour productivity over the past decade limits economic growth and improvements to living standards.

“If the Australian economy achieves the productivity growth assumed in the Intergenerational Report, that would be a marked turnaround,”

Tim Robinson · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-21

Robinson said meeting the productivity growth assumptions in the Intergenerational Report would represent a significant reversal of recent trends.