Stephen Koukoulas
speaker
2,355 appearances
24 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3d ago
Stephen Koukoulas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But it is the sort of thing that's going to be, when functioning and operational in on scale, yeah, uh, it's gonna be really, really beneficial for an economy like Australia that then it's sort of a a good thing that the business sector is
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undertaking that because it will
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enable them to embrace AI and to for them to expand and develop.
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And become more productive.
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Moderate wages growth.
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And that's always a bit of a tricky one to talk about because
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Uh, we want wages growth to be positive so that workers can get a bit of a pay rise, that they can increase their spending in line with inflation, and that living standards are maintained.
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But we don't want wage risers to be so strong that it deters businesses from hiring people.
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And I think what we've seen in recent times with the wage price index, and again, there are wage components within the national accounts that were out last week.
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They're what we call moderate in the groove, not too hot, not too cold, all those cliches that I can think of quickly.
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And so workers are getting a bit of a pay rise.
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Good.
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Businesses are not being deterred from hiring because wages are too high and I've got to pass it on in inflation.
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So the business sector is probably going to be looking at their wages bill over the next year and say, well, look, it's about right.
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Three, three and a quarter, three and a half.
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Percent increase in annual terms if I'm getting this productivity enhancement from all this capex that I'm doing, and the RBA actions on interest rates start to see inflation come down.
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Maybe that's a story for another day too.
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Um, that all of a sudden, this time next year, we could be sitting quite pretty in the business sector will be thinking, gee, things are things are pretty good.
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My cost base is is increased in a way that's manageable, uh, and my output's increasing.
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quite nicely.
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