Weighing up the economic value of the North West Hup versus environmental damage and loss of cultural assets. We hear from researcher Piers Verstegen here at a talk entitled the Endangered rock art of M urujuga - can it survive held at the Victoria State Library days before the start of a Federal Court case brought by the Friends of Australian Rock Art (FARA) against the Federal Labor decision to preference Woodside's gas extension to 2070 in the North West Shelf.We now go to part of a conversation here we had with Breanna Dempsey, a NTEU delegate from Monash University, and David Gonzales, President of the Melbourne University Branch of the NTEU, as they embark on a campaign to be elected to the Victorian executive of their Union under the banner Branches Lead ticket.

On June 17th the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) announced that it was adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-semitism. Nick Hanna, an experience human rights lawyer and part of the Civil Liberties Defence Centre gave a briefing to health workers around the politics behind the AHPRA decision how it affects them at work

We have two reports today.One is a reflection on the Australian Education Union Vic (AEU) memberships' refusal to accept the Victorian Government pay offer despite the executive of Union's endorsement here.We follow with a look at AUKUS as a Trojan Horse for a take over of Port Kembla and the Central Coast of NSW by a US military base here.

On Tuesday June 16th Melbourne city was awash with the Blue of VAHPA  and the Red of MSAV. In an historic joint industrial action the Victorian Allied Health Professionals Association and the Medical Scientists Association took to the streets calling on the Victorian Government to pay the public health sector a fair wage comparable to other States in Australia. Stick Together was there

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Parks Victoria workers, after a year in negotiations have been forced to take action refusing an offer that would lock in lower pay and conditions, and put them behind colleagues in other parts of the Victorian public sector. The same level paid a lower rate.Adding insult to injury the executive branch of Parks Victoria are paid at the broader Victorian Public Service wage rates. Stick Together reports from the action held at the foot of the high rise in the Melbourne CBD at 300 La Trobe street on Monday 25th of May. 

Two issues this week with a common theme.First the Australian Nurses and Midwives Federation branch in South Australia the ANMF SA has stepped up industrial action after the returned Labor Government in South Australia were unable to negotiate better pay and conditions after returning to office.  We speak with CEO/ Secretary ANMF SA Elizabeth Darbars hereIn Victoria the Victorian Allied Health Professionals Association (VAHPA) are outraged at the Allan Government’s budget for failing to address gender inequality in the largely female workforce. Industrial protected action is in process. We speak with Secretary VAHPA Andrew Hewat here

Tim Gooden by Andy Urquhart On this weeks episode meet former Geelong Trades Hall Secretary, Tim Gooden. We chat and walk through GTH and chat about the towns local union history!Below are mediocre photos I took of the beautiful photos and artworks displayed around the building. Geelong Wool Combing Dispute John Howards Individual Contracts Mass Strike 2005Sandra Kranz Murals WA Solidarity and Unwelcoming John Howard in GeelongGeelong Women UnionistsJohn Kranz and 888 History 

International Worker's Memorial Day is held on the 28th April. A sobering event marking the passing of workers who died from work related injuries. First we hear from some of the people who gathered to honour the dead, followed by the Victorian Premier Jacinta Allen,  then from Lana Cormie, now part of a group with lived experience of loss working to change the system, and ending with some of the remembrance of those who never returned home from work. 

In this episode of Stick Together we chat with Tash Wark, Secretary of the ASU Vic/Tas Branch about the multi-council campaign they are running in metropolitan Melbourne. We also hear a statement given by Dave Ball in regional town Geelong on the war in Iran. Geelong is quickly becoming one of Australia's biggest defence industry towns with the Geelong Defence Alliance and Geelong on the Rise projects.