Protests to demand听jobs and a safe environment are听still necessary or we face the recurring nightmare of last summer's bushfires, argues Steve O'Brien.
Steve O'Brien
Electric buses, retrofitting buildings, green aluminium smelters, offshore wind generation and mine rehabilitation are among the job creation ideas being proposed by a new union-environment alliance, reports Steve O'Brien.
We need to ensure that coal-mining communities are听part of the renewable energy future, argues听former steel worker Steve O鈥橞rien.
A strategy to promote union participation in the climate movement will draw us one step closer to finishing off PM Scott Morrison and moving to a sustainable future.
Over the past 150 years, Hunter Workers has continued to be a voice for regional needs that has promoted a broad social vision.
Bryce Gaudry, one of those rare politicians who put the public before personal interests, passed away on October 5.
All of us know someone who is worse off than ourselves. Chances are that person is someone barely surviving on the Newstart Allowance.
The City of Newcastle Council passed a resolution 鈥淩ecognising there is Global Climate Emergency and the urgent need for real action on climate change鈥 on May 28.
I will happily take any opportunity to wave a red flag in public. My chance to do so this year was on May 1, the International Workers' Day.
Last September, while campaigning for the position of Lord Mayor of Newcastle and a ward councillor, I bumped into an NSW Labor Party officer at a coffee shop.
鈥淐omrade鈥, he said, 鈥淵ou鈥檝e got some great policies鈥. 鈥淔eel free to borrow any of them,鈥 I relied cheekily. 鈥淥ur housing policy, for example, is based on Socialist Alliance councillor Sue Bolton's work in Moreland, Victoria.鈥
The next day the local papers reported that ALP candidates were talking up 鈥渁ffordable housing鈥.
Sometimes I wonder if New South Wales transport minister Andrew Constance听thinks he is a comedian.
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I happily admit that I will take any opportunity to parade down the street waving a red flag, and the May Day march in Hamilton on Sunday will be one of those opportunities.
Since the 1850s, when the first workers鈥 associations were formed in the Hunter, trade unionists and their families have put their demands forward on occasions such as May Day.
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