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Full-time salaries are failing to keep pace with high inflation, leaving rich and poor with real pay cuts.
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Chalmers celebrates wage gains as figures tell another story

The Treasurer and his senior Labor colleagues are claiming to be champions of wage growth despite average, full-time salaries failing to keep pace with high inflation, leaving rich and poor with real pay cuts.

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