Last month, two developments delivered a sharp warning to Australia’s industrial base. In a major economic address, Treasurer Jim Chalmers declared productivity the “defining economic challenge of the next decade”. He identified manufacturing as a key battleground on the same day that the ABS reported a 0.7 per cent fall in manufacturing labour productivity, making…

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