This bill opens the door to lowering the standard of education in Territory schools.  That impacts every employee, student, parent and community member with an interest in the success of NT education. Please join us in urging the government to abandon this rushed and risky bill.

Every job lost at Bell Bay Aluminium will ripple out through workshops, contracting businesses, and the wider community. The future of manufacturing and Metal Trades in northern Tasmania hinges on the continued operation of the industry in Bell Bay.  The government has the means and ability to act, it must contract to supply cheap power from Tasmanian Hydro to Bell Bay and save manufacturing in Tasmania. 

Gaps like this are not about paying men and women differently for the same job. They're usually about who holds which roles: men concentrated in senior, higher paid positions, women in lower paid, customer facing ones. As a customer, you'd never see that. It's invisible unless the data is made public.    That's exactly why WGEA reporting matters. WGEA is the government agency responsible for making every company's gender pay gap data public. When companies report, we can see where the gaps really are and what, if anything, they're doing to close them.   Take 2 minutes to send your email! It will go directly to Seafolly's CEO, Brendan Santamaria, the person with the final say to make it happen. 

Good housing standards and support to upgrade homes means cheaper bills, and healthier families.  For $1 saved on energy bills from insulating and properly heating a home, more than $10 is saved within the healthcare system.  Better thermal comfort and less mould in homes leads to fewer GP visits, fewer pharmaceuticals dispensed, and reduced hospital admissions for respiratory and mental health issues. The Federal Liberal Party has made it clear they would rather working families live in poor quality housing than maintain minimum housing standards.  Victorian Liberal Leader Jess Wilson needs to come clean about where she stands – with working Victorians, or with the landlords in the Liberal Party?

Currently, Arts Centre Melbourne union members are fighting for a fair pay deal. This is the first time ACM staff have ever taken industrial action.   Industrial action is never taken lightly, but ACM staff have been left with no other choice.   A fair deal is possible!   We ask for your support so that ACM staff can continue to deliver world-class performances to Victorians. 

Proposed changes risk:  • Silencing workers by limiting their ability to speak publicly about workplace concerns  • Extending dispute processes unnecessarily  • Increasing legal and procedural barriers that disadvantage working people  • Undermining good faith bargaining  At a time when Tasmania faces workforce shortages and increasing health system pressures, the Tasmanian Government should be strengthening collaboration, not weakening the rights of healthcare workers.  Nurses and midwives advocate not only for ourselves, but for patient safety and community wellbeing. Any industrial framework that discourages speaking up puts patients at risk.  We call on the Tasmanian Government and Minister Guy Barnett to:  1. Commit to keeping the Tasmanian Industrial Commission as a stand alone body  2. Publicly rule out measures that silence or penalise healthcare workers for raising safety concerns  Tasmania’s nurses and midwives deserve a fair system. Our patients deserve a strong voice for safety. 

All Parks staff are critical in ensuring our natural places -- their flora and fauna -- are protected and maintained and that visitors to our Parks are safe and provided the services they need. Rangers, visitors centre staff, administration workers, firefighters and others deserve fair wages, conditions and opportunities to progress their careers. We need to retain these important workers and attract new ones to ensure the long-term health of our unique natural environment. Your support for Parks workers will show the government how much they are valued and assist us to make a strong case for a fair Parks and Wildlife pay and conditions agreement.

Most renters cannot install solar panels to save on their energy bills. They pay electricity bills like everyone else, but miss out on the biggest direct savings from renewable energy. This is unfair. Renters are already being squeezed by rising rents, insecure housing and the cost of living. They should not also be forced to pay higher energy bills simply because they do not own their home. The solution Victoria now has a publicly owned energy company: the SEC. The SEC can give renters a share of publicly owned solar and wind generation, with the value of the electricity produced credited directly to their power bills. Under a Solar for Renters program: • Victorian rental households would receive a stake in an SEC-owned solar or wind farm; • renters would receive credits on their electricity bills from the renewable energy generated; • renters could take their entitlement with them whenever they move house; and • the renewable generation would remain publicly owned for the long-term benefit of Victorians. A renter should not need their landlord’s permission, a suitable roof or thousands of dollars upfront to access cheaper renewable energy. The SEC gives Victoria the opportunity to make renewable energy genuinely available to everyone, not just property owners. Publicly owned renewable energy should mean cheaper bills for everyone. Give renters their Time in the Sun.

Victorians deserve cheaper energy bills and real energy solutions now.  But Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party is pushing to introduce nuclear power to our shores.  Australians know that nuclear power is one of the most expensive forms of new energy to build.  It would take years, cost billions, and do nothing to cut household power bills now.  That's why we rejected Peter Dutton's nuclear plans during the 2025 Federal Election. Send a message to Pauline Hanson and One Nation: Victorians say no to nuclear 

Former Liberal Leader Brad Battin made it clear his intention to cut the SEC if the Liberal Party wins this November: "The SEC is gone if we win.”  The Liberals have also attacked the Victorian Energy Upgrades program, calling it a “broken energy upgrades scheme”. But we know the VEU is helping households and businesses access thousands of dollars in discounts for energy efficiency upgrades and solar panels.   It doesn't stop there. The Liberals’ have released their energy plan for the state. The Clean Energy Council estimates that this plan could put 26,000 Victorian clean energy jobs at risk.  Right now, the SEC is investing in jobs and infrastructure, training the next generation of apprentices, helping Victorians electrify their homes, and keeping profits here in Victoria.  Victoria needs to get on with the job of delivering cheaper bills to homes and businesses. We can't afford another round of cuts and privatisation

The State Electricity Commission (SEC) is Victoria’s publicly owned energy provider, and we want it to do more! After years of campaigning, the union movement convinced the Labor State Government to bring the SEC back, after Liberal Premier Jeff Kennett privatised it in 1994. We want the SEC to deliver cheaper bills by building more renewables, support households to electrify, train the next generation of energy workers, and keep energy profits here in Victoria. More state investment in the SEC will drive down our energy bills, deliver more jobs and give young people a future in the trades through apprenticeship programs. The SEC is about building the clean energy system Victoria needs: owned by the people, run for the people, and delivering for the people.  

Right now Australia is missing out on the full benefits of a domestic decommissioning industry. Oil and gas giants are attempting to shirk their responsibility for full decommissioning, dumping tonnes of degrading pipelines, concrete and steel off Australia's coast. Australia has the capability to safely dismantle oil and gas infrastructure here, but instead companies are towing this infrastructure overseas, and then returning the hazardous waste back to Australia. In other words, the jobs and valuable industrial materials go offshore and we get the waste.  We call on State and Federal Governments to close loopholes that allow oil and gas giants to dump waste and deny jobs to Australians.