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Shorten suggests Labor might change rules for minimum wage

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and a key frontbencher have separately indicated that a Labor Government might be willing to change the Fair Work Act's minimum wages objective to guide the FWC in moving towards a "living wage".

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