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ETU Members in NT Help Secure Landmark Inpex Agreement, Setting New Benchmark for Offshore and Onshore Gas 2026-08-07 [ETU]

Inpex's Australian LNG workers back pay deal that could set industry standard 2026-07-15 [Reuters]

Unions reach deal with gas giant Inpex after weeks of strikes at Ichthys facility 2026-06-17 [ABC]

LNG Union Reaches Deal to End Strikes at Ichthys 2026-06-17 [Energy Connects]

Unions plan to extend Inpex LNG strike by two weeks 2026-06-15 [Reuters]

Fair Work Commission rejects gas giant Inpex's claims strikes would damage Australia's economy 2026-06-14 [ABC]

Prisoner Escape Highlights Outsourcing Dangers 2026-06-10 [CPSU]

Inpex seeks urgent orders to stop Darwin strike as experts fear impact on gas market could be significant 2026-06-10 [ABC]

Workers strike at Inpex Ichthys operation after negotiations on pay deal stall 2026-06-02 [Bloomberg]

Union says workers to strike at Inpex LNG facility from May 27 2026-05-18 [Reuters]

Nathan River Resources stands down workers with no pay, blames fuel crisis 2026-04-10 [ABC]

Transit officers on Darwin's 'dangerous' bus network will soon be armed with guns 2026-04-09 [ABC]

Man killed at Tanami mine in Northern Territory as machinery malfunctioned, investigators believe 2026-02-06 [7 News]

Worker's death at Tanami gold mine in Central Australia under investigation 2026-02-05 [ABC]

Huge Northern Territory mine suspends operations after tragic death of worker 2026-02-05 [Sky]

'Nothing was being done': Inpex workers raise fears over toxic chemical emissions and oil spills 2025-11-13 [ABC]

OC spray used at Darwin nightclub two weekends in a row as NT trial approaches one-month mark 2025-09-29 [ABC]

NTPS workers vote down new agreement 2025-09-24 [CPSU]

Members urged to reject ‘shabby’ NTPS pay deal 2025-09-21 [CPSU]

NT public sector offer ‘a slap in the face’ 2025-09-18 [Government News]

Program: 'We're not being heard' - public health workers on pay dispute with NTG 2025-09-17 [ABC]

Thomas Mayo rejects NT Government’s planned roll out of pepper spray to security guards 2025-09-06 [MUA]

Industrial action to hit NT prisons as EBA negotiations break down 2025-08-31 [CPSU]

Patients in Peril: Urgent Action Needed for Hospital Pharmacy Crisis in the NT 2025-08-15 [Professionals Australia]

Work From Home brawl brewing in NT 2025-05-30 [CPSU]

Historic moment as CDU win sees union-negotiated enterprise agreements at every public university in Australia 2025-05-19 [NTEU]

Prison officers deliver no-confidence vote in Corrections Commissioner Matthew Varley 2025-02-21 [ABC]

Paramedics union survey finds 88 per cent have no confidence in St John Ambulance NT executive 2024-12-11 [ABC]

'Exploding with prisoners': union fights inmate shift 2024-10-27 [The Post]

Union responds to serious concerns at NT prisons, with corrections officers fearing for their lives 2024-10-16 [MIx 104.9]

Federal government to pay up to $202 million settlement to indigenous workers, relatives in NT stolen wages class action 2024-09-07 [ABC]

Wage justice at last for Indigenous NT workers 2024-09-06 [The New Daily]

Charles Darwin University must stop attacks on academic freedom 2024-04-16 [NTEU]

Union calls on CDU vice-chancellor to apologise to workers 2024-02-20 [The Independent]

Areyonga School has a long list 2024-02-14 [AEU]

Police charges against NT truck driver show need for a zero tolerance approach to level crossing safety 2024-01-12 [RTBU]

Escapee arrested 20 kilometres from Alice Springs prison as union blames staff shortages 2023-01-05 [ABC]

Charles Darwin University’s pay offer sparks cost of living fear 2022-11-07 [NTEU]

Hundreds of Darwin bus services cancelled as drivers quit due to escalating violence and anti-social behaviour 2022-10-31 [ABC]

Darwin and Alice workers to stop work as part of public sector day of action 2022-09-01 [UWU]

Wage cap architect living it up on the public purse in London, while NT frontline workers suffer 2022-08-30 [UWU]

Industrial action concludes at Darwin Port, but negotiations continue 2022-08-30 [DCN]

Schools to remain open amid Territory-wide teacher strike on Thursday 2022-08-29 [The Independent]

Toni Childs features in all-female line-up at Freedom Day Festival to remember women of Wave Hill walk-off 2022-08-28 [ABC]

Darwin Port workers strike 2022-08-19 [DCN]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

1-08-1990 Founding of the United Firefighters Union of Australia. [more]

2-08-1917 Members of engineering and rail unions across Sydney begin to strike against the time card system, with more workers taking unofficial action the next day. [more]

9-08-1917 The number of workers on strike across Sydney increases to 45,000 when miners and longeshoremen join the action. [more]

12-08-1917 The Australian government informs the people, through the Sunday papers, that "The enemies of Britain and her Allies have succeeded in plunging Australia into a general strike." [more]

14-08-1917 Seamen's Union Vice President W. Daly is arrested and charged with conspiracy to instigate an illegal strike. [more]

16-08-1890 Marine officers walk off their ships in strike action, soon followed by their crews. [more]

17-08-1861 Coal miners in NSW refuse 20% wage cut & walk out; locked out until October. [more]

22-08-1966 200 aboriginal workers walk off the job in Wave Hill to back their demand for pay equality with white workers. The strike runs for 9 years and expands to include a demand for the return of stolen land. [more]

23-08-1966 Two hundred Gurindji workers walk off their cattle station at Wave Hill, a strike that will last almost a decade and lead to the passage of the Aboriginal Land Rights Act. [more]

24-08-1917 The government declares that the Strike Committee in Sydney shall be considered an illegal organisation. [more]

25-08-1989 All 1640 domestic airline pilots, organized by the AFAP, resign to back their pay claim. TWU members refuse to refuel RAAF planes being used to break the pilots. [more]

26-08-1894 Striking shearers burn and destroy the steamship 'Rodney', which had been used to transport scabs on the Darling River. [more]

30-08-1917 First labour martyr Merv Flanagan shot and killed in Sydney during General Strike for yelling 'scab'. His murderer Reginald Wearne ( whose brother was a consevative MP) was never convicted. [more]

31-08-1890 Up to 100,000 workers gather in Melbourne to support the sheep shearers' strike [more]