Despite last week’s decision by the Fair Work Commission to push up the national minimum wage by 5.2 percent, millions of Australians, in all parts of the country, will continue to live in poverty and on survival wages. The facts are that the Commission’s decision takes the minimum wage from $772 a week to $812, an increase of $5.70 a day, not a fortune but better than nothing. By Francis Sullivan
Five brothers, The Sullivans, died on the same day, November 13, 1942, during World War II. The Irish American brothers became the first multiple-person namesake of a ship in US Naval history.
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Congratulations are pouring in for Anthony Albanese, who will become Australia's 31st prime minister and just the fourth person to lead Labor to government from oppo.
Incoming prime minister Anthony Albanese was accompanied by his partner Jodie Haydon and his dog Toto as he hit the streets of Marrickville, in Sydney s inner west, on Sunday.