Local residents held a rally on May 23 to stop trucks entering the Tullamarine toxic dump site in Melbourne’s west. Two days later they picketed to again stop trucks from entering the landfill site.
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A three month long industrial dispute at the West Gate Bridge strengthening project in Melbourne has ended. Unions and construction giant John Holland reached a settlement on May 15.
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Last week’s university staff strikes across Victoria were in response to decades of attacks on higher education.
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Members of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) from five Victorian universities took strike action on May 21.
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Vision Australia announced on May 6 that it will slash more than 130 jobs. This includes cutting 90 jobs in Victoria and the closing of three regional offices.
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Two hundred people protested at Parliament House on May 6 against the Victorian governments proposed solar feed-in tariff legislation.
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While federal and state governments focus on the need for state-based reconciliation groups to bring better understanding between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, Reconciliation Victoria Incorporated (Rec Vic) will have to close in July due to a lack of funding.
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On April 29, the steps of Victorian Parliament were filled with the stomping feet of angry protesters. They had marched through the city demanding public transport concession fares for international and postgraduate students.
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Construction company John Holland and unions are locked in discussions to settle a nine-week-long industrial dispute.
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Thousands of workers across the country rallied on April 28, including more that 15,000 in Melbourne. The rallies protested the Rudd governments maintenance of the anti-union Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC), which was established by the previous government of John Howard.
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Anti-desalination campaign group Watershed has called a protest for May 9 at the site of the proposed desalination plant in Wonthaggi, Victoria. The slogan of the protest will be, “If they build it, we all will pay!”
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Four hundred Tamils and their supporters gathered in Melbourne on April 23 for an emergency protest. It was organised in response to the Sri Lankan government’s latest brutal military escalation in the north of the island.