Although the pickup in wage growth last quarter was driven in part by one-off factors, a look under the hood suggests that wage pressures will be slow to recede over the year ahead. Insofar as that keeps unit labour cost growth and services inflation elevated, it bolsters the case for the RBA to tighten policy further.
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