Opinion

The death of Queen Elizabeth II is also a goodbye to the certainty of increasing living standards

Peter Martin
Updated September 14 2022 - 4:37pm, first published 5:30am
King Charles III inherits a future with no guarantee of ever-increasing living standards. Picture Getty Images
King Charles III inherits a future with no guarantee of ever-increasing living standards. Picture Getty Images

Much has been written about how, with the passing of the Queen, we have lost one of our last continuing links to the second world war.

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Peter Martin

Peter Martin

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Peter Martin is the business and economy editor of the Conversation and a visiting fellow at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. He is a former economics editor of The Canberra Times.

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