Shorten’s “big boss fat cats” are right about wages and jobs

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From our Bill today comes confirmation that he will change the rules at the Fair Work Commission to force wage hikes:

“There’s a range of ways which governments can put the case to the Fair Work Commission. They can make submissions in the minimum wage case.

We don’t want adults in Australia working full time trying to survive on $18.93 per hour before tax.

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About the author
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.