Your morning Briefing: Stubborn staff keep lid on wages growth

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Hello readers. Stubborn staff have been blamed for keeping wages low by refusing to move to more productive firms, and Jordan Peterson tells of his annus horribilis.

15/07/2019 Karen Chester deputy chair ASIC. . Meghan Quinn, deputy secretary Treasury and Jenny Wilkinson, Parliamentary Budget Officer at the MCG for the economics society of Australia conference.Picture: David Geraghty / The Australian.

Failure to launch

Stubborn employees who ­refuse to move into more productive companies are a major cause of record-low wages growth, new research shows.

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Building sector ‘may collapse’

A building certifier has warned the construction industry will ‘collapse’ without solving the compulsory indemnity insurance crisis.

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27/04/2018: Generic picture of AMP building, Sydney. Hollie Adams/The Australian

AMP rattled

The breakdown of AMP’s $3.3 billion sale of its life business has left its turnaround strategy in tatters.

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24/02/2019: Jordan Peterson, Canadian clinical psychologist, in Sydney ahead of his Q&A appearance. Hollie Adams/The Australian

Year of trauma

Being sacked from Cambridge isn’t the worst thing that has happened to Jordan Peterson in an unforgiving annus horribilis, writes Andrew Billen.

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Former Greens leader Bob Brown speaks to the media during a press conference in Brisbane, Monday, June 3, 2019. Former Greens leader Bob Brown is planning to protest against Adani outside the Indian embassy in Canberra. (AAP Image/Glenn Hunt) NO ARCHIVING

Brown exposes Greens

Bob Brown has exposed a conspiracy of silence by the Greens on the true cost of ­renewables with his NIMBY stance against a massive wind farm for Tasmania.

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Former senator Jim Molan appears on the ABC's Q&A.

Molan plans comeback

Jim Molan made a bid to return to politics in Arthur Sinodinos’ newly vacant Senate seat, writes Sascha O’Sullivan in our Q&A recap.

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Kudelka’s view

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