Victorian teachers protested the Jacinta Allan government鈥檚 decision to delay at least $2.4 billion in promised funding for public schools. Isaac Nellist spoke to Adam Bremner, Victorian public school teacher, Australian Education Union (AEU) member and Socialist Alliance member, about the impact of this funding cut on teachers and students.
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Victoria's environment department has charged the government-owned logging agency VicForests over its illegal logging of rainforest buffer zones in East Gippsland. The allegations relate to a logging operation in the Serpentine Creek Rainforest Site of Significance near Cann River, which caused serious damage to protected warm temperate rainforest.
About 800 aged care nurses and carers in 26 Victorian Bupa nursing homes are set to take protected industrial action.
The first stage will include wearing campaign t-shirts, handing out campaign materials, bans on certain paperwork and speaking to the media.
The Victorian branch of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) has been negotiating with Bupa management for improved staffing levels, skill mix, wages and working conditions for the past 14 months.
in Victoria released the sttement below on September 25. *** Authorities have inundated the media with 鈥渓eaks鈥 to portray Numan Haider, shot dead outside a police station in Endeavour Hills on September 23, as a terrorist in the making.