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Australia’s lowest paid workers will get a pay rise from July

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Millions of Australians are set to get a pay rise from July, after the Fair Work Commission delivered its annual minimum wage review. Unions are cheering the decision, but business groups are warning it could be the tipping point that leads some shopfronts to fold.
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