{
  "id": 11040846,
  "title": "Labor glosses over productivity recession",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/labor-glosses-over-productivity-recession",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-30T22:00:38.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MacroBusiness",
    "slug": "macrobusiness",
    "url": "https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2026/10/labor-glosses-over-productivity-recession/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "In the latest Intergenerational Report from the Albanese government, a series of assumptions are, to put it politely, “overly optimistic”. Chief among them is the baseline forecast that Australia’s productivity growth will average 1.2% per year, slightly below the 20-year average before 2020. Looking at the chart above, the assumption of productivity growing at 1.2% The post Labor glosses over…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}