'Bollocks': forecast for higher living standards panned

The West Australian Jacob Shteyman

21 Sept 2026 13:02 AEST Summary

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Economists have panned Treasury's productivity assumption, which underpins forecasts of rising living standards and economic growth.

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Niral Score 30.3 mundaneloaded

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living2panned2standards2

Sentiment +0.7 hostilefavourable Jingoistic 4.5 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Sourcing 36 unattributednamed sources Mood 52 sorrowjoyful

4 read zero: political diction, generational, gender, religious

Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Religious 0 not invokedovert

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Outlet	Niral Score
The West Australianas they published this story	30.3

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