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The Change the Rules campaign is an initiative of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. Its goal is to, as the name suggests, change the laws and regulations governing industrial relations in this country. From unpaid penalty rates to record low wage growth, to the fact one third of big businesses in Australia don’t pay any tax at all, the hope is this campaign will focus public attention on the lack of economic justice and basic fairness in this country. It’s already breathed new life in to a labour movement long struggling for relevancy and indeed its very survival. Yesterday the architect of that campaign, newly elected Secretary of the ACTU Sally McManus, was in Fremantle to address the annual May Day festival.