Queensland Rail is trying to force through an extreme cut to stations across South East Queensland, leaving stations without any staff on them after 1 PM on weekdays and on weekends. Unstaffed stations create environments where passengers feel vulnerable, particularly at night or in quieter periods. Without staff present, incidents of antisocial behaviour, harassment, and crime are harder to prevent and respond to. Vulnerable passengers and school students will have no one to turn to for immediate help.  Students, particularly younger ones, will have no adult railway employee to turn to if something goes wrong, a missed train, a lost go card, a medical issue, or a frightening encounter with another passenger.  School students, especially teenage girls, are disproportionately targeted for harassment on public transport. Staffed stations act as a visible deterrent and provide immediate recourse. Removing that presence during peak student travel times creates environments where harassment is more likely to occur and less likely to be addressed.  Passengers who rely on staff assistance include people with disabilities requiring help with ramps, gap bridging, or navigation; elderly passengers unfamiliar with ticket machines or needing physical assistance; tourists and visitors unfamiliar with the network; and people with low digital literacy who can't self-serve via apps or machines. Cutting weekend and afternoon staff effectively locks these people out of public transport, which is a human rights concern, not just an inconvenience.  Public transport exists to serve the whole community, not just tech-savvy, able-bodied peak-hour commuters. Reducing service quality by removing the human element signals a retreat from that social contract. 

Young people in the Hume and Riverina regions currently have no access to local, age-appropriate acute inpatient mental health care. When adolescents experience severe mental health crises, they are too often admitted to adult wards, left for extended periods in emergency departments, or transported hours away from their community by family or patient transport, even when there is an immediate danger to themselves. These arrangements are clinically inappropriate, distressing, and inconsistent with trauma-informed standards of care. They disrupt schooling, separate families, and increase the risk of further harm - emotionally, socially and physically. Albury–Wodonga is centrally positioned to reduce unsafe travel distances across both Victoria and New South Wales, while easing pressure on already stretched metropolitan services. This is about safety, equity, and ensuring crisis care is available close to home when it is needed most.

Without the work Sustainability Victoria does, we won’t reach Net Zero. Abolishing Sustainability Victoria is a betrayal of the state government's own commitments to the community and climate. This is happening during a time when other key environmental agencies are being gutted, diminishing Victoria’s capacity to address biodiversity decline, waste reduction and climate action. To reach the Victorian Government’s target of Net Zero by 2045, Victoria needs to reduce emissions and waste– 36% of Victoria's emissions come from the extraction and use of manufactured goods and material products. A circular economy is integral to ensure the long-term repurposing, reusing and recycling of our resources. Why Should We Save It? • Sustainability Victoria is Independently Governed. For over 20 years, Sustainability Victoria has delivered the programs and expertise for Victoria to design out waste, under the guidance of an independent board and CEO. Without this independence, Victoria loses one of the only institutions that has a mandate to pursue sustainability outside of the electoral cycle. • Sustainability Victoria has its Own Funding Model. It is funded by the Municipal and Industrial Waste Levy (MILL), collected through council rates; by law, this levy must go to sustainability initiatives like waste reduction. If unspent, this fund sits idle, used by the government to prop up its budget bottom line. The fund, meant for agencies like Sustainability Victoria, is on track to have $700 million sitting idle by July 2026. • Sustainability Victoria benefits climate, community and the economy. By working with industry, schools, local governments and communities, SV provides evidence-based solutions that allow Victoria to reduce, reuse, and recycle. Modelling shows a circular economy, advanced by Sustainability Victoria’s team of experts, could increase Australia’s GDP by $26 billion in the next 10 years and add 150,000 new jobs to the Australian market by 2048. Sign our petition and send a clear message to the Government:  We cannot afford to go backwards. We cannot afford to lose Sustainability Victoria.

Local Government services in Victoria are in crisis because of chronic underfunding by the Allan Labor Government. Council workers across metropolitan Melbourne are under constant threat of outsourcing and have seen their real wages cut by between 7-12%. High rates of vacancies and turnover are endemic across the sector, and workers are more exposed than ever to occupational violence and unsustainable workloads.   This also means lower quality services for the broader community. It means understaffed libraries. It means graffiti being left up for weeks and subcontracted street sweepers racing through too many streets and leaving rubbish behind. It means youth workers preventing crime by providing vital early intervention services losing their jobs.   Our communities can’t afford a race to the bottom.

Our workplace laws need to catch up to the reality we're living and working in 2026. If you support changes to protect our work from the damaging new aspects of AI and workplace surveillance, think long service leave should follow you and not your boss, and want those who can to be able to work from home, sign this pledge.

Rocks statement  “"My name is Rock Idugboe. I am 29 years old, born in Nigeria, and I came to Australia at the age of 13 from a refugee background. Australia has given me safety, opportunity and a future — and I have never taken that for granted. I have worked hard to build a stable, responsible and respectful life. Today, I am an expecting father, preparing to welcome my child into the world. I have a partner who relies on me, a mortgage to meet, and financial responsibilities that extend beyond my own household. My mother is unwell and only able to work part-time, so my siblings and I contribute to paying her mortgage to ensure she remains secure. Family responsibility is something I carry with pride. Losing my job without notice and without proper cause has been devastating. It has placed sudden and immense pressure on me at a time when stability matters most. I have always done my best to be educated, diligent, respectful and easy to work with. I have approached my work and my life with integrity, professionalism and consideration for others. To be dismissed in this way has been deeply disheartening. Not just financially — but personally. I have consistently tried to move forward in this country with gratitude, respect and a strong work ethic. I believe in fairness. I believe in accountability. And I believe that people deserve to be treated with dignity. This situation has been incredibly difficult, but I remain committed to rebuilding, providing for my family and continuing to contribute positively to my community."”

The Victorian Catholic Education Authority (VCEA) is seeking to ignore the nearly 19,000 staff who signed a Statement of Support for fair bargaining last year – a clear majority of the 35,000 staff that the VCEA has claimed work in Victorian Catholic education. No good explanation has been provided for this anti-worker stance, and this continued denial of our basic rights is causing deep concern amongst staff in Catholic schools right across the state. As educators, we don’t want to have to take industrial action – but as workers, we know that the internationally-recognised right to do so is what gives us power at the bargaining table, and that without this right we are negotiating with one hand tied behind our back.  

A lot of Victorians in all sorts of industries can’t work from home - but our whole community wins when those who can work from home are given the option. It means fewer cars stuck in peak hour traffic and less congestion on public transport. Local small businesses benefiting from increased lunchtime demand. Families with someone around to pick up the kids up after school. That’s why I support moves by the Victorian Government to legislate a right to work from home for two days per week for people who are reasonably able to do so. I want all politicians, and all Victorians, to get behind this simple proposal that will improve the lives of millions of Victorians and their families.

When injured workers go through the WorkCover system, they can face disbelief, delays, intrusive surveillance, and adversarial processes when they are at their most vulnerable. Oftentimes, instead of being supported to recover and return to work safely, injured workers are forced to fight for treatment, income, and dignity. A meaningful Code of Injured Workers’ Rights would set clear, enforceable standards, ensuring workers are treated with fairness and respect, supported in recovery, and not retraumatised by the WorkCover system itself. 

Local government workers deliver essential services our communities rely on every day. But councils are increasingly replacing secure, ongoing jobs with labour hire and rolling fixed term contracts. In some councils, labour hire workers now make up almost one in ten staff, often doing the same work as directly employed council workers but for less pay and fewer conditions. At one Council, ongoing employees are working side-by-side with labour hire workers on $18 less an hour. At the same time, many workers have been trapped on rolling fixed term contracts for years - in some cases for more than 10 years - creating constant uncertainty and undermining their ability to build careers, support their families, and invest in their workplaces. Insecure work doesn’t just hurt workers, it hurts communities. High turnover and lost experience weaken local services and make it harder for councils to build strong connections with the people they serve. Communities deserve stable councils staffed by workers who are supported, trained, and able to build long-term knowledge of their local areas.

Hate doesn't deserve a big screen!  The One-Nation-endorsed 'A Super Progressive Movie' presents itself as an edgy satire whilst really trafficking in hate.  As the Australian Classification Board describes, "The entire film is full of crude humour, which trivialises the fight for equality and issues, including the rights of minority groups and those facing discrimination, including First Nations people, the LGBTQIA+ community, differently abled people, etc." Screenings previously scheduled at Parliament House have already been cancelled on the grounds that "events held at Australian Parliament House are accepted, among other requirements, of not being likely to cause offence to any part of the Australian community." Workers are entitled to a safe workplace. Hosting this film and the attendant rally of 700+ One Nation supporters will threaten that. Stand up for workers at Village Cinemas, patrons of Crown Casino and the entire affected community that Pauline Hanson's campaign of hate and division will target. Come out to the Refugee Action Collective's rally this Thursday at 5:30pm, Jeff's Shed on Clarendon St (opposite Crown Casino) 

Myuna workers are local people with mortgages, children in local schools, and deep ties to the Lake Macquarie community. The mine supports not just 300 direct jobs, but thousands of others including contractors, transport workers, small businesses, and services that rely on stable, well-paid work in the region. When a major employer like Myuna closes, the damage does not stop at the gate. It flows through families, communities, and the local economy.  Workers are being asked to live with uncertainty while Origin continues to profit from running Eraring, a power station that was once publicly owned and now supplies essential electricity to NSW. A just transition means planning, certainty, and fairness, not silence and delay. Communities like ours deserve better.