The Australian Public Service Commission’s diminutive offer of just 3% a year to federal public servants has been dealt another industrial body blow, after Australia’s official inflation rate climbed to 4.3% in August on the back of chronically high fuel prices propelled by conflict between the United States and Iran and their associated proxies.
Transport costs — that’s fuel at the bowser for the consumer and anything else that sucks diesel, petrol, avgas, jet fuel, or LPG / propane — jumped a thumping 3.0%