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Take The StandSurvivors of rape and sexual assault participate in the criminal justice system of their own free will. The system would collapse in regards to sexual crimes, without their voluntary involvement. Many do so at great personal cost. When they take the stand, they do it to keep us, the community safe. Now itâs our turn to take a stand for them and demand a criminal justice system that does not further injure those who enter it.7,401 of 8,000 SignaturesCreated by Nina Funnell
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Stop Pharmacy Bosses From Blocking Our Award Pay Rise!Employee pharmacists are Australiaâs lowest-paid health professionals and are leaving the industry in droves. Professional Pharmacists Australia (PPA), the union for employee pharmacists and technicians, has submitted a comprehensive case to the Fair Work Commission calling for a long-overdue minimum Award wage increase for pharmacists of $188.30 per week and a 14% increase for Interns, Pharmacists In Charge and Pharmacy Managers. But the Australian Private Hospitals Industrial Association (APHA) is calling on the Fair Work Commission to block all proposed pay increases. Pharmacists deserve better and are calling on APHA to acknowledge the vital role of pharmacists by amending their submission to the Fair Work Commission to support a fair pay increase. Sign this petition to demand that APHA stop blocking a pay increase to the minimum award rate. Letâs show APHA that their stance isnât just unsustainable â itâs deeply unpopular. Pharmacists deserve better, and with your signature, pharmacists can put pressure on APHA to change their position. Together, we can demand change. Support Australiaâs pharmacists today: 1. Sign the petition to show your support for fair wages for pharmacists. 2. Share this petition with everyone you know â pharmacists, healthcare professionals, and community members who rely on and value pharmacistsâ expertise.1,542 of 2,000 SignaturesCreated by Professional Pharmacists Australia Union
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Woolworths: put workers' safety first and meet with warehouse workers!Workers at Woolies warehouses have been forced to take strike action. The multi-billion-dollar company is squeezing every last drop out of shoppers and warehouse workers alike. Woolworths' measurement system, "The Framework" sets a universal standard for human movement. It is discriminatory, dangerous and unrealistic to expect people to meet the same universal standard every second of every day. Â â"We're human beings, not robots." UWU warehouse worker The Project 24/10/2024â Woolworths' punitive measurement system does not respect workers as human beings. Warehouse workers say that in order to meet the Framework, people must sacrifice their own safety and mental well-being. Workers feel they must cut corners and perform tasks at dangerous speeds to avoid being disciplined or losing their jobs. CEO Amanda Bardwell needs to listen to the union members speaking up - she needs to meet with them and hear their stories. Woolworths needs end the Framework and come to the table with a fair offer. Sign our petition calling on the Woolworths CEO to meet with workers and end "the Framework".8,000 of 9,000 SignaturesCreated by United Workers Union
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Support our TAFE Teachers!TAFE teachers like me are dealing with unsustainable workloads and massive administrative burdens. Too many of us are burnt out and leaving the sector in droves, contributing to a chronic workforce shortage that must be urgently addressed. Itâs no surprise TAFE teachers are frustrated and feel like theyâve been brushed aside by the same government who promised to save TAFE more than a decade ago. Without TAFE teachers like me and my colleagues, TAFEs cannot deliver the vocational education and training that Victorians need. The teacher shortage will only get worse and the negative impact on our students and the Victorian community will only get bigger. To make matters worse, instead of saving TAFE the state Labor government has been responsible for vocational education and training in Victoria being the lowest funded in Australia every year for the last 10 years. Premier Allan and Minister Tierney: You need to fix the dispute with TAFE teachers and invest in them and our TAFEs.  Your lack of action shows you believe it is ok for Victorians to not have proper access to high quality TAFE programs delivered by valued and respected TAFE teachers. I am calling on Premier Jacinta Allan and Minister Gayle Tierney to: ⢠Respect TAFE teachers and pay them what they are worth. ⢠Address excessive workloads that lead to too many teachers leaving TAFE. ⢠Create pathways for the next generation of industry experts to become TAFE teachers. ⢠Deliver TAFE funding that covers the actual cost of course delivery. Please, sign my petition to tell Premier Jacinta Allan and Minister Gayle Tierney that Victorian voters want action to support TAFE teachers! Mark Zelman, Teacher at William Angliss Institute of TAFE2,086 of 3,000 SignaturesCreated by Mark, TAFE Teacher
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No more delays, itâs time for fair payQantas is currently renewing its fleet, but it wonât get off the ground if no workers are here to maintain them.  If Qantas values its safety reputation, it needs to show it values its highly-skilled maintenance engineers.Â551 of 600 SignaturesCreated by QANTAS Engineers' Alliance
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Protect Queensland's Abortion LawsAccess to abortion is at risk in Queensland.  If the LNP get into power this October, Queensland womenâs rights will be taken back to the dark ages.  It has come out this week that the Katter Party is seeking a âclean repealâ of the 2018 abortion decriminalisation bill as soon as possible â and multiple LNP members have recently reaffirmed their support to wind back abortion laws in Queensland.  The Katter Party have committed to introducing a private members bill to repeal the decriminalisation of abortion as soon as possible. That leaves the door wide open for the LNP to vote to make abortion a crime under a conscience vote. Day after day, David Crisafulli refuses to answer questions about whether or not he would allow a conscience vote. Last time the LNP had a conscience vote on abortion, 36 out of 39 voted for abortion to be a crime. Since then, they have continued to vote against access to abortion for regional & rural Queensland women and have hand-picked extreme anti-abortion candidates, like Amanda Stoker, to run in this election.9,458 of 10,000 SignaturesCreated by Reproductive Rights Queensland
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Sacked for helping a mateAt 1:30 am on 27 June 2024, an ambulance rolled in Myrtleford trapping paramedic Jim Avard. Patient Transport Ambo, Andrew Bishop responded to the scene and cut Jim free, helped him exit the ambulance safely and into the care of other paramedics. As an active union delegate and safety rep, Andrew later took a picture of the rolled ambulance and sent it to the union and his employer National Patient Transport. That picture went viral and highlighted the risk of fatigue faced by paramedics and ambulance workers across Victoria. Within a few hours of the story going public, National Patient Transport stood Andrew down from duty. He has since had his employment terminated from National Patient Transport. Andrew has worked as a fire fighter, a first aider and in the safety industry for over 40 years. He did his best to use his skills and experience to rescue a workmate and get him to care safely. He also helped expose the serious risks faced by ambulance workers across Victoria. Sacking an ambo for trying to do the right thing is unfair, harsh, and unreasonable and this decision should be reversed.  Have a heart NPT. Give Andrew his job back.6,636 of 7,000 SignaturesCreated by Victorian Ambulance Union
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Please Adam Bandt & the Greens - Support Help to Buy!We cannot fix the housing crisis unless we pull all levers available. We need to Greens to work together and introduce the Share Equity Scheme (Help to Buy) - where the government co-owns the property with the first home owner to help them with a smaller deposit and have lower each mortgage repayment.281 of 300 SignaturesCreated by Labor For Housing
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Community services workers deserve transparency about long service leave!The ASU has been fighting for years to have the Portable Long Service Authority allow workers to apply for registration rather than waiting for their employer to do the right thing (with no consequences from the Authority). While the Authority recently created a webform to this end, the ASU has had no indication that these applications are being processed! What we have seen from the Authority over the last 5 years since the Portable Long Service Scheme went live is: ⢠prioritizing collaborative âeducationâ of employers who repeatedly flout the legislation and continual âlast chanceâ warnings from the Authority; ⢠dismissing and ignoring Community Services workers â including many workers being told to be patient for a period of several years, while the Authority has friendly discussions with employers; ⢠refusing (until mid-2024) to implement a Worker Application form, despite this being a legislative requirement; and ⢠treating their role as financial fund managers rather than service providers for Community Services Workers; and regulators of sketchy employers.  ASU Community Services members fought hard to get this scheme in place, and weâre not going to let the Authority leave eligible workers out in the cold.450 of 500 SignaturesCreated by ASUVicTas
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Park it! Freeze the parking rates at ANUIn the OnCampus email on Tuesday 1 October, ANU announced that it was raising its parking rates without any consultation with students and staff. These rates are being raised by at least 177% for surface parking permits. ⢠Student surface permits for off-campus students are going from 512.69 in 2024 to 1,416.20 in 2025 ⢠Student resident permits are raised from 512.69 for several parking stations to 1,416.20. ⢠Staff permits are going from to 1,025.39 to 2,839.70 These increases will make the parking on campus entirely unaffordable for huge groups of students and staff. They will particularly impact vulnerable groups on campus, such as disabled people, parents and carers, and people from regional and rural areas, who are more likely to rely on cars and therefore need parking on campus. This potentially breaches ANUâs ââProcedure: Prevention of discrimination, harassment and bullyingâ in relation to provisions relating to prevention of indirect discrimination. For students who live on campus, many face walks of over forty minutes to the closest shopping centre and cannot get to work without a car. Many students from interstate cannot visit home without a car. Off-campus students and staff may not have access to any viable public transport options. While we embrace better public transport options, particularly on-campus, many ANU community members do not have a choice and should not have to pay for it with these eye-watering prices. ANU already has the lowest proportion of disadvantaged students across the country and increasing the price of things like parking actively work against making the university more accessible to people from those backgrounds. We note that the benchmarking process the ANU undertook compared ACT government parking spots, including at the Parliamentary triangle. These communities are not the same as the ANU, particularly ANU students. It is important that the ANU understands that benchmarking rates against ACT government rates will result in harm to the ANU community when it results in massive hikes.Â2,040 of 3,000 SignaturesCreated by ANU Students' Association
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Tasmanians need change, not cutsTasmanians deserved a budget that invested in our critical public services, a budget that provided the resourcing required for workers to effectively deliver high quality public services to the community.  Privatisation and cuts are never the solution.  The cuts to be made through âefficiency dividends" have drawn significant criticism from prominent independent economist Saul Eslake who has labelled them âcrudeâ and a âvery poor means of achieving meaningful and lasting expenditure savingsâ. âŻÂ The CPSU is campaigning for change (not cuts) to save our public services.Â195 of 200 SignaturesCreated by CPSU Tasmania
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Stand up for reproductive rights!Queensland women, especially women living regionally, are at risk of losing their legal right to access abortion services as well as cuts to critical funding to provide the healthcare required across all regional hospital and health services. We know their voting record: ⢠The LNP and conservatives voted against decriminalisation of abortion in 2018. ⢠The LNP went to the 2020 state election pledging a review of the laws which gave Queensland women abortion rights. ⢠In 2022, they refused to rule out future attempts to unpick them in the midst of the Roe v Wade publicity across the world. ⢠And in 2024, they voted against the introduction of the MS2-Step abortion pill. Now David Crisafulli is hedging his bets saying it wouldnât be on the first term agenda if heâs elected as Premier but will not rule out supporting a private memberâs bill. Queensland women deserve respect and better healthcare rights than this.  We call on David Crisafulli, the Liberal National Party and all other conservative political parties to commit to protecting our hard-fought rights to access reproductive healthcare and abortions. So that wherever someone finds themselves in Queensland, they can access safe, funded and legal termination of pregnancy services. Authorised by J. King, Queensland Council of Unions, 16 Peel St South Brisbane.13,386 of 15,000 SignaturesCreated by Queensland Unions