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What: Healthcare workers will deliver an open letter to the Federal Climate Change & Energy Minister’s Office, from 25 organisations representing over 50,000 health professionals, calling on the Federal Government to accelerate roll out of rooftop solar on social housing to protect health Where: Federal Parliament steps When: Tuesday, March 26th, at 11:00 pm – … Continued
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A Federal Parliamentary committee report into the perceptions and status of vocational education and training offers mixed outcomes for students, according to the Independent Tertiary Education Council Australia (ITECA), the peak body representing independent skills training, higher education, and international providers. The report highlights the need to provide students with clearer information on their study … Continued
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25th of March 2024 This past summer’s record temperatures and extreme weather left many Australians struggling to stay safe and comfortable in their own homes. Now a coalition of community groups are heading to Canberra to meet with decision-makers and discuss solutions to protect people from the health impacts of severe temperatures, ease their … Continued
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Later today, Community Legal Centres Australia will launch its latest snapshot of the sector at Parliament House, revealing that local community legal services nationwide are being forced to turn away 1,000 people every day. The report, A sector in crisis, documents the overwhelming demand faced by legal assistance services, as well as the workforce crisis … Continued
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The Australian Taxation Office (ATO), with the support of the Australian Border Force led Illicit Tobacco Taskforce (ITTF) and Victoria Police’s VIPER Taskforce, has seized and destroyed more than 2,700 kgs of illicit tobacco at a property in Pentland Hills, Victoria. Through Operation Bonnybridge, officers attended the property this week and located four acres of … Continued
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CFMEU National Secretary Zach Smith statement regarding Work Health and Safety Ministers’ Meeting today: “The CFMEU welcomes confirmation engineered stone will be banned from July 1 after our union’s successful Stop This Killer Stone campaign. “Federal, state and territory governments have backed our call to ban the importation, use and manufacture of engineered … Continued
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After an intense period of lobbying, the Independent Tertiary Education Council Australia (ITECA) has secured amendments to legislation reforming the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011 (Cth). The amendments secured by ITECA ensure that the Australian Government will no longer be able to impose a permanent ban on the establishment of new Registered … Continued
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Friday 22nd March Climate organisations respond to Coalition’s nuclear push The adoption of nuclear reactors in Australia is not a climate policy, according to the Climate Council, Australian Conservation Foundation, Solutions for Climate Australia, and more than 40 civil society organisations working to speed up Australia’s response to climate change. In a joint statement, non-government … Continued
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The Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit (JCPAA) has expanded an existing inquiry examining the previous government’s failed attempts to privatise the visa processing system and deliver new IT systems in Home Affairs, to examine public sector IT projects more widely. Committee Chair, Mr Julian Hill MP, said that “lessons must be drawn from both stages of the … Continued
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ACOSS acknowledges National Close the Gap Day and urges governments to respond to the calls from First Nations peoples for action to Close the Gap in outcomes for communities and to deliver on Voice, Treaty and Truth. The federal budget must raise social security payments to provide immediate cost-of-living relief for people who need … Continued
