Penalty rates: real-life stories don't stick to treasurer's script | Greg Jericho

Even with Australia’s strong GDP numbers, cutting Sunday penalty rates is a tough sell because workers’ pay has fallenIf ever you needed evidence of the disconnect between the economic big picture and people’s lives it came this week – a week in which the government was meekly trying to argue in support of the decision to cut Sunday penalty rates while at the same time dealing with the GDP figures that showed both strong economic growth and falling wages. It used to be so