{
  "id": 4979527,
  "title": "Australia’s productivity performance: “bad to worse”",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/02/australias-productivity-performance-bad-to-worse",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-02T01:00:44.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MacroBusiness",
    "slug": "macrobusiness",
    "url": "https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2026/09/australias-productivity-performance-bad-to-worse/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Australia’s productivity growth over the past decade has been among the poorest in the OECD, hampering economic and per capita growth and contributing to the nation’s inflationary pressures. Australia’s original “productivity tsar”, Professor Gary Banks, was the long-serving founding chair of the Productivity Commission (1998-2013). Back then, you could trust the PC to deliver sound The post…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "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."
}