A podcast explores how New Zealand's stagnant minimum wage and low living standards compared to Australia's rising wages are pushing young Kiwis to seek better opportunities abroad, raising concerns about economic sustainability and worker well-being.
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Australia has just handed its lowest paid workers a 4.75% pay rise, lifting the minimum wage to just over 25 Australian dollars an hour, which is about 32 New Zealand dollars an hour. That means a full-time worker across the Tasman will now earn at least 1,004 Aussie dollars before tax or 1,216 Kiwi dollars. Here, the minimum wage went up just 2% this year to $23.95 an hour. Even our voluntary living wage at $29.90 falls short of Australia's legal minimum. At a time when rent, groceries, petrol, and power bills keep climbing, the comparison is stark. So what does this say about how New Zealand values its workers? And why on earth would any young person want to live and build a life here? Today on the front page, New Zealand Council of Trade Unions President Sandra Gray is with us to talk about the growing wage gap, what it means for workers here, and whether New Zealand is in danger of pricing itself out of its own future.
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