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Workers rally against prison privatisation

Kerry Smith,Sydney

4 April 2009

More than 3000 workers, organised by the Public Service Association, marched on NSW Parliament House on April 2 to oppose the planned privatisation of the Goulburn and Cessnock jails.

Nursing, teachers and other public sector unions joined the protesters, who vented their fury on a Labor government that continues to flout official party policy opposing privatisation.