Natalie McDonald
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647 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 8 Sep
Natalie McDonald’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So for an average full time worker, Michael, One Nation says that that's about two thousand three hundred dollars a year, give or take, or forty four dollars a week.
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Hansen rejects claims the policy would be inflationary, arguing the impact would be neutral.
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Treasurer Jim Chalmers, however, says that the proposal amounts to a full frontal attack on superannuation.
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He's already declared the next election will be a referendum on super, while the super members' council estimates a typical 30-year-old taking up the scheme for three years could receive around $6,900 now, but retire roughly $25,000 worse off.
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Construction is another major problem, and I know we've been talking a lot about that lately.
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Labour productivity fell two point five percent over the past year, while the number of homes completed for every hour worked has fallen thirty six percent from its twenty fifteen peak.
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And this is all adding to concerns about Australia's ability to build enough housing.
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Productivity matters because over time it it's one of those main drivers of real wages and living standards.
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If Australia keeps producing less value for each hour worked, sustained income growth becomes much, much harder.
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Mm, and that's kind of how the week is expected to go, really, with oil being that kind of dominant driver.
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Um, speaking of which, oil remained above ninety six US dollars a barrel after rising eight percent last week, and those escalating tensions between the US and Iran, helping to lift Woodside and Santos.
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Uh, miners also gained as iron ore hit a hundred US dollars a ton for the first time in a month.
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Uh well, zero.
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and Wise Tech fell more than three percent.
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In some form of of good news, administrators have secured short-term funding from five lenders, and that will allow construction to continue on some projects for another two weeks.
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Bathur has forty-five construction sites and around two and a half thousand partially built apartments, with more than, as you said, $3.4 billion in debt.
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The implications, however, go beyond Bertha.
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Its broader pipeline of fourteen thousand apartments represents around eighteen and a half percent of the new housing New South Wales is targeting this year, while the collapse is also raising questions about the private credit funds that financed much of its growth.
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And these companies move goods for major customers, including the likes of Aldi, BHP, Coca-Cola, or even Blue Scope and Metcash.
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The union is pushing for above inflation pay rises, more full-time jobs, and protections against work being contracted out.
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