Tasmanian wages continue to slide further behind inflation as the cost of living crisis worsens for families and households.
New Australian Bureau of Statistics data has shown that wages have increased in Tasmania by only 2.9 per cent, but inflation has increased by 6.5 per cent.
This means hard-working Tasmanians are effectively copping a 3.6 per cent wage cut, all the while being slammed with rising power bills, water bills, and housing prices.
Inflation in Tasmania is amongst the highest in the country, while our wages remain the lowest. Jeremy Rockliff's weak offer of 2.5 per cent is offensive to our nurses, firefighters and teachers, and will do little to keep up with the pace of inflation.
Rather than ease the cost of living and provide a real wage increase to our invaluable frontline workers, educators, and those that keep us safe, Jeremy Rockliff is imposing higher power bills, higher water bills, and lower wages.
Tasmanians are going backwards under a weak Liberal Government that can't get the basics right.
Shane Broad MP
Shadow Treasurer
