“Tiny” Tim rises to shadow treasurer

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“Tiny” Tim Wilson is your new shadow treasurer.

New Coalition Treasury spokesman Tim Wilson has warned too many jobs are reliant on government support and vowed to put small business at the heart of his agenda, amid expectations real wages will go backwards for the first time in more than two years.

With Labor set to come under further pressure over its second-term record when wages figures are released on Wednesday, Angus Taylor unveiled a frontbench team he said would be ­focused on cutting waste, boosting productivity and deregulating the economy.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.