1. Microsoft, Google et al hide their profits overseas, making any comparison of company profits in Australia impossible.

For sure, I don't disagree with Groundrelay's earlier quite valid point about who is not paying the most tax in Australia. Trans-national companies like Apple and Google certainly should be paying more but they also employ ex-politicians to lobby against any potential measures affecting their delicate tax structures... what can you do. Is there any lobby group that represents ordinary people I wonder.

2. The LNP has been in power for the last 4 years of the 8 years since 2009 and, obviously from the above statement, done nothing about real wages except attempt to reduce penalty rates.

Again, no argument from me at all on that - you are right, they've actually accelerated the problem. And yet they don't see the irony of pursuing a low-wage policy while revenue from income tax (the biggest single source of revenue for the Commonwealth) is continuing to flat-line. The sorts of jobs that are being created in Malcolm's flash "new economy" are obviously not ones that pay well?