You may have heard these words many times particularly at public events and ceremonies but you may not be aware the NTEU Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Unit can assist all members with appropriate protocol for Welcome and Acknowledgement of Country, and guidance on how best to work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities when seeking to arrange a Welcome or Acknowledgement of Country. More...

The final report on insecure work and its impact upon Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workers, How secure do you feel?, is to be released in December, with findings showing that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workers are faced with increasing insecure employment. More...

Consensus that neoliberalism is the right approach for society has fractured, as the results of this experiment are there for everyone to see. 
Working people were promised more jobs, greater wealth and better services. More...

‘Work.’ It often seems like a four-letter word. Especially on Monday mornings, as we drag ourselves out of bed and off to our jobs. Yet it’s a necessity of life – for the simple reason that most of us have to work, just to support ourselves. A small section of society, roughly the richest 1 or 2 per cent, own enough wealth to live without working (and they are the ones who have benefited most from the many business- and finance-friendly policies implemented over the last generation). But the rest of us must support ourselves the traditional way: by finding a job, doing it well, and earning a living. More...

The Government says it will consider the Australian Law Reform Commission’s (ALRC) final recommendations regarding a fair use exception in Australia. More...

The 2nd UNESCO World Congress on Open Education Resources, held recently in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana, brought together hundreds of stakeholders from across the higher education sector including trade unions, government and inter-government agencies, and publishing and digital technology companies. More...

The sustained brutalisation of the higher education sector by a privatisation agenda is now widely documented and well understood. It has come to shape the lived realities of professional and academic staff, as well as students, across Australia’s 40 or so universities, in deep and visceral ways. More...

Casually employed academic staff in the Australian National University’s Fenner School of Environment and Society have already seen their take-home pay increase as a result of a successful campaign by NTEU casual members. These academic staff will also be back paid thousands of dollars to retrospectively correct underpayment dating back until at least mid-2016. More...

On 26 September 2017, NTEU convened simultaneous national meetings to brief university staff on the grave implications of the Murdoch Decision. Held on the day the Agreement termination came in to effect, a live-streamed address from NTEU General Secretary Grahame McCulloch in Perth, was beamed in to meetings at university campuses around the country. More...

On 29 August this year the Fair Work Commission (FWC) handed down its decision to terminate the Murdoch University Enterprise Agreement. Commissioner Williams’ decision took effect on 26 September, leaving Murdoch University staff on the minimum standards in the underlying award as their only enforceable industrial rights. More...