SBS News in Easy English 3 June 2024

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Millions of Australians will get a 3.75 per cent wage increase, with the Fair Work Commission handing down its annual wage review decision.

"Our decision today is to increase the national minimum wage, and all modern awarded minimum wage rates by 3.75 per cent, effective from 1 July 2024. In determining this level of increase, a primary consideration has been the cost-of-living pressures that modern award reliant employees, particularly those who are low paid and live in low-income households, continue to experience."

This comes as the ICC's Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan seeks arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his defence minister as well as three members of Hamas' leadership, accusing them all of multiple war crimes. "We do nothing to help make it happen by recklessly threatening to pull out of the bodies that uphold international law. That kind of talk may seem tough to some, but it undermines Australia's core security interests. For example, we cannot insist that China abide by international legal decisions in the South China Sea but threaten to pull out of the International Criminal Court.

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