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  1. Rally to commemorate 1912 General Strike

    Posted 24 January 2012 by Ross Gwyther (Qld Division)

    The Qld Council of Unions is organising a large rally in King George Square on Thursday February 2nd to commemorate the centenary of the 1912 tramway Strike, and the subsequent Brisbane General ...

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  2. 100 year anniversary of Brisbane's famous general strike

    Posted 13 January 2012 by Ross Gwyther (Qld Division)

    On 18th January 1912 at 11.00am, Union members of the Tramway Employees Association attached their union badges to their watchchains to publicly display their union membership. This was in defiance ...

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  3. NTEU members join campaign for QANTAS workers

    Posted 14 November 2011 by Ross Gwyther (Qld Division)

    Today NTEU members and officials joined 500 workers from many different unions in a march of solidarity with QANTAS workers.  We marched from the International airport in Brisbane to the ...

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  4. Support QANTAS workers on Monday!

    Posted 10 November 2011 by Ross Gwyther (Qld Division)

    Unions covering QANTAS workers have organised a rally and march on Monday 14th Nov at 9:00am at the aiport.

    The Qld Council of Unions are asking as many union members and staff as possible to join ...

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  5. Researching Conflict in the workplace

    Posted 27 September 2011 by Ross Gwyther (Qld Division)

    The NTEU (Queensland Division) is committed to enhancing the well-being of members at work. We are currently supporting researchers at Griffith and Bond University who are examining conflict in the ...

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  6. Prof Aileen Moreton Robinson delivers the annual Oodgeroo Noonucul Lecture

    Posted 21 September 2011 by Ross Gwyther (Qld Division)

    Prof Aileen Moreton Robinson will deliver the annual Oodgeroo Noonucul Lecture on Monday 26 September at 6:00pm.  To see details, including RSVP, see the flyer available here.

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  7. Environmental action for those under-30s !

    Posted 6 September 2011 by Ross Gwyther (Qld Division)

    For our younger NTEU members (or your students), you may be interested in attending a workshop in Brisbane  15th-17th October..

    It is called “Power Shift 2011: Start the Transition” ...

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  8. And you thought it was only at your uni!

    Posted 30 August 2011 by Ross Gwyther (Qld Division)

    A recently published book , "Academically Adrift", raises interesting questions about the lack of rigour in US universities, driven partly by over-reliance on student evaluations.  Read the ...

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    As enrollment rates in colleges have continued to increase, a new book questions whether the historic number of young people attending college will actually learn all that much once they get to campus. In Academically Adrift By Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa Paperback, 256 pages University of Chicago Press List Price: $25 Read An Excerpt February 9, 2011 text size A A A Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses, two authors present a study that followed 2,300 students at 24 universities over the course of four years. The study measured both the amount that students improved in terms of critical thinking and writing skills, in addition to how much they studied and how many papers they wrote for their courses.

  9. Knowledge is Power meetings at ACU McAuley campus

    Posted 1 August 2011 by Ross Gwyther (Qld Division)

    Understanding gains in our Collective agreements is an important part of building grassroots union strength.  Today  (Monday 1 August) the first of three meetings at ACU McAuley campus will ...

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    "Knowledge is Power" at ACU McAuley
    "Knowledge is Power" at ACU McAuley

    At ACU McAuley: Three meetings to discuss the latest EB agreement (1st August, 9th August, 24th August), and a social soup kitchen on Thursday 25 August.

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  10. Help us monitor ERA at your uni

    Posted 21 July 2011 by Ross Gwyther (Qld Division)

    Dear NTEU members,
    The advocacy of university staff was instrumental in bringing positive changes to the impending 2012 ERA exercise. There is, however, a dearth of public information about what the ...

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