The rights of Australian women are under attack. The Liberal Party has fought against: • 3 days of subsidised childcare for every child • paid family and domestic violence leave • paying superannuation on paid parental leave • a long overdue 28% wage increase for low paid aged care workers • a 15% wage increase for early childhood educators • the right to disconnect, preventing bosses hassling us at home • new laws to stop sexual harassment at work. If the Liberal Party is elected at the next federal election, this is all under threat.

No one should have to work in pain or sacrifice their income to care for their health. Reproductive leave would allow workers to care for their health without financial stress or fear of discrimination. Let’s create fairer workplaces for all workers. Sign the petition to call on 10 days of reproductive leave today!

Bargaining in good faith isn’t just a legal obligation, it’s the right thing to do. When workers are denied a seat at the table, it sets a dangerous precedent. Fair pay and safe conditions don’t happen by chance, they’re fought for. Every delay impacts real people: your colleagues, your friends, your family.

Flexible work is not a perk—it’s essential. It’s essential for your employees’ work-life balance and their mental health. It’s essential for the attraction and retention of skilled workers. And it’s also essential for productivity at work. 

Temporary migrant workers are not eligible for the Fair Entitlements Guarantee.    This exclusion creates a two-tier workforce, where migrant workers are left with nothing while others are protected. It rewards dodgy employers who exploit migrant labour, shut down their businesses, and walk away without paying what’s owed. 🚨 If we don’t act now, this will only get worse. When employers get away with underpaying or abandoning workers, it drags down wages and conditions for everyone. This isn’t just a migrant worker issue—it’s a union issue, a worker issue, and a fairness issue. 📢 Sign the petition today and stand in solidarity with migrant workers! 🔗 Read our Policy Brief “Expanding the Fair Entitlements Guarantee” here

The cuts at UTS have the potential to devastate students, staff, and education quality, and marginalised students will be hit hardest. Join us to demand transparency, protect courses, and ensure UTS puts students and staff before the bottom line.

Journalists from the Daily Telegraph allegedly targeted a well-known Sydney takeaway restaurant, Cairo Takeaway. The restaurant has been a vocal supporter of Palestine on its social media pages. According to staff at the restaurant, a man wearing a Star of David cap entered, ordered tea, and made a number of provocative comments to a server in an apparent attempt to provoke an argument. When the server attempted to disengage by walking outside, she found a full camera crew from the Daily Telegraph waiting outside the restaurant. According to a chef at the restaurant the local community came out in support of the staff, and video shows the provocateur and Daily Telegraph newscrew fled with "tails between their legs".

Why this is important to us  We, the undersigned, strongly endorse the Council’s resolution in 2021 and its pursuit of reconciliation since then. It means a great deal to us that the  Council has listened to the First Nations people when they say that 26th January is a day of mourning that raises memories of stolen children, the hiding of First Nations heritage, and similar trauma within immediate family circles.   What needs to happen  We expect the current Councillors to uphold the Council’s first steps towards paying due respect to the Wadawurrung and Eastern Maar people. These first steps need to be consolidated and expanded upon. In the future, we hope all Shire citizens can continue to learn more about the deep and rich heritage of an ancient culture that has survived and begun to thrive again, enriching the whole community.

The ANU’s Socially Responsible Investments Policy, adopted after years of persistent student pressure, remains in shambles. The policy prohibits investment in companies that make 20% or more of their revenue from coal, but it says nothing about oil or gas. The policy prohibits investment in companies that make civilian weapons like handguns, but not companies which make military weapons which are many times more destructive. Recently, we found that the ANU was investing over $35 million in projects that break their own emissions rules. Also, ANU’s most recent documents show a $32.7 million investment in BHP, one of Australia’s biggest producers of thermal and metallurgical coal. They also show a $6.7 million dollar investment in Australia’s biggest oil and gas producer, Woodside Energy. We say all of those numbers should be ZERO. We need to sign this petition to signify to the university bosses that we're still not satisfied with their investment decisions.

The Environment Collective has been strident and effective for many years. In 2012, the Environment Collective’s campaigning convinced the ANU to divest from unethical fossil fuel company Metgasco, the first divestment of its kind among universities in Australia. In 2013, our campaigning was able to get the ANU to create a Socially Responsible Investments Policy and throughout the 2010s our advocacy made the ANU improve that policy. In 2019 and in the early 2020s, we ran large climate strikes and protests on campus which achieved huge media coverage around the country. In 2024, we contributed to a campaign that successfully led the ANU to ban investment in small arms and controversial weapons. Unfortunately, despite our record of success, some leaders in ANUSA, which controls and funds us, are pushing to abolish the Environment Collective partly because of opposition to the Collective’s political activism in the past. This is despite the fact that Environment Collective is a democratic body that any student can participate in.  Why do they want students to vote to cripple environmental activism in a time of climate crisis?

Inflation has dropped from 7% to under 3%, yet the RBA has not approved a rate cut in over 15 months. Meanwhile, central banks around the world are cutting rates to ease cost-of-living pressures. Australians cannot afford another month of sky-high mortgage repayments and rent increases. It’s time for the RBA to act in the interests of working Australians, not just big banks and billionaires. Australian workers and families have been struggling under relentless cost-of-living pressures. Thirteen consecutive interest rate hikes from May 2022 to November 2023 have made mortgages and rents unaffordable for millions, while food and petrol prices remain high. Many Australians are forced to go without just to keep a roof over their heads. Despite global inflation stabilising, the RBA continues to hold rates high - putting profits over people. There is even talk of another rate hike at the next RBA meeting, which would devastate households already stretched to the limit. We can’t afford more delays. Tell the RBA: It’s time for an interest rate cut

Over a million Australian workers rely on penalty rates to ensure they are fairly paid for the work they do, including working evenings, weekends and public holidays. The Australian Retailers Association, (ARA) backed by major retailers including Coles, Woolworths, and Kmart, doesn’t believe these workers deserve penalty rates. Despite the retail industry making over $7 billion in profit just last year, in a blatant attempt at cutting wages they have applied to the Fair Work Commission to cut penalty rates from Awards and Enterprise Agreements. If successful, this would mean workers lose overtime pay, evening and weekend penalty rates, work breaks, and see reduced rest times between shifts—from 12 hours to just 10 hours. We need to send a strong message to Coles, Woolworths, Kmart, and the ARA that Australians won’t accept cuts to penalty rates or reductions in fair pay standards.