Podcasts about Ged Kearney

Delve into an exciting new era for women's health in Australia, highlighted by a $573.3 million investment. Join my conversation with Ged Kearney, the Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care, who passionately shares insights from her extensive background in nursing and women's health advocacy. As we explore the various components of this funding package, Ged discusses critical advancements aimed at transforming menopause care, addressing gender disparities in the health system, and fostering community awareness about healthcare needs.We unpack the elimination of barriers related to long-acting contraceptives, funding for additional endometriosis, pelvic pain and menopause clinics, and the emphasis on educating healthcare professionals to provide better perimenopause and menopause care for women. This episode offers a deep look into the shifts occurring within healthcare policy and the need for comprehensive support services designed for women navigating challenges in their midlife health. Don't miss the chance to learn more about how these initiatives can empower women across the nation and how your vote at election time can secure this support.To be part of the conversation, subscribe, share this episode, and join my mission to raise awareness around women's menopausal health.Links:Health Package DetailsThank you for listening to my show! Join the conversation on Instagram

First up in our series of bonus episodes interviewing Greens candidates for the upcoming federal election, Emerald and Tom meet Tara Burnett, Greens candidate for the inner-Melbourne seat of Cooper! Is Cooper the Greens‘ white whale? Is now the time that Greens can unseat Labor’s Ged Kearney and finally expand their Melbourne base? What would Tara becoming Australia’s first trans federal MP mean for the community? And what’s the goss with her girlfriend Celeste Liddle? ---------- These bonus election episodes can only exist because of our wonderful Patreon subscriber’s support. Subscribe for $3/month to get access to our fortnightly subscriber-only full episode, and unlock our complete library of over SIXTY past bonus episodes. https://www.patreon.com/SeriousDangerAU ---------- Call to action - Tara Burnett for Cooper - for upcoming events, donate or check out the Sam Wallman fundraiser at linktr.ee/tara.burnett There’s an election coming! https://greens.org.au/events Check out the platform - https://greens.org.au/platform Serious Danger merch - https://seriousdanger.bigcartel.com/ Produced by Michael Griffin https://www.instagram.com/mikeskillz Follow us on https://twitter.com/SeriousDangerAU https://www.instagram.com/seriousdangerau https://www.tiktok.com/@seriousdangerauSupport the show: http://patreon.com/seriousdangerauSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

GED KEARNEY MP, ASSIST. MIN. FOR HEALTH AND AGED CARE ASSIST. MIN. FOR INDIGENOUS HEALTH joins Macca and Janet live on-air. Janet and Macca are joined live on-air by GED... LEARN MORE The post Saturday, 14th, December, 2024: GED KEARNEY MP, ASSIST. MIN. FOR HEALTH AND AGED CARE ASSIST. MIN. FOR INDIGENOUS HEALTH appeared first on Saturday Magazine.

Chris O'Keefe examines Anthony Albanese's upcoming cabinet changes, with Linda Burney and Brendan O'Connor stepping down and potential new faces like Jenny McAllister and Ged Kearney entering the fray.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rihab Charida - a Palestinian Film Maker here II Rihab is caught in a recording by Vivien Langford at a recent Belmore Park, Sydney event for Palestine.Darebin 4 Palestine Protest Parade here II The Protest Parade called by Darebin 4 Palestine will kick off at 11am on Saturday June 15th at Nathan Lambert's Office 352 Bell St, Preston, then march to Ged Kearney's office, 159 High St, Preston and travel over to Kat Theophanous' office, 404 High St, Northcote. A day of protest - bring your family, friends and dogs to tell the local pollies they need to be on the right side of history.World Refugee Day Telethon here II  the ASRC (Asylum Seeker Resource Centre)  is running its major fund-raising event on June 20th - World Refugee Day. The telethon is running on ASRC's socials 7am-10pm. Viewers can donate by calling 1300 692 772 (1300 MYASRC), or online. Bid on Auction items here. Viewers can text HOPE to 0476 000 111 to donate $15..ASRC Instagram, Facebook, Facebook Event Page, X and LinkedIn.#ASRCTelethon #worldrefugeeday #standwithrefugeesThis is the Week here II Kevin Healy ploughs though the week with the sharp shear of satire.How Australia Created a Housing Crisis here II despite politicians pretending that the housing crisis is not person made we hear the stats and the policies behind the major fail in housing in Australia. We feature Maiy Azize, National Spokesperson Everybody's home &Matt Grudnoff Senior economist The Australia institute from this Australia Institute webinaire hereRefugee Voice of Hope here II at the recent Kill the Bill Rally a voice of hope was heard from an extraordinary young woman Praveena Thurairajasingam-Mukunthanenator.

Rights, Rorts and Rants' International Women's Day 2024 show included this interview by Debra Smith with Ged Kearney. Ged is with Susan Templeman after a Women's Health Forum held in Katoomba on 6th March which all had attended. Debra Smith asks Ged some questions about Aged Care. Ged is Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care, and former President of the ACTU and the first MP to raise menopause in Parliament. Susan is Member for Macquarie. Debra's report on the forum is below - Draft Report on the Forum docx file The show was first broadcast on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1 FM on 8 March 2024 by Blue Mountains Unions & Community and presented by Debra Smith and Peter Lammiman. Podcast produced by Ann-Maree McEwan If you'd like to add to the discussion, you can ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠leave an audio comment about our show⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, which may be added to one of our podcasts. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apply to be a guest on our radio show⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, Rights, Rorts and Rants on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1FM, Fridays from 4pm to 6pm or livestreamed via ⁠⁠⁠rbm.org.au.⁠⁠⁠ Join a union - 1300 486 466 or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠join online⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.   Join ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BMUC⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Blue Mountains Unions & Community pays its respect to and acknowledges, the Darug and Gundungurra First Peoples of the Blue Mountains area and acknowledges this is Aboriginal Land that was never ceded. Authorised by D Smith, Secretary, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Blue Mountains Unions Council Inc⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, 52-52A Great Western Hwy, Mount Victoria, NSW. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rightsrortsandrants/message

Australia's Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care, Ged Kearney, was in Dubai at COP28 to launch Australia's first National Health and Climate Strategy. Underlining the importance of the event was the fact that this was the first time in the history of the COPs that a day had been dedicated to climate and health. And that, of course, didn't go unnoticed by the Professor from the School of Population Health at the University of Auckland, Alistair Woodward, who wrote about that major moment on The Conversation - "COP28: the climate summit's first Health Day points to what needs to change in NZ". --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robert-mclean/message

One year after Roe v Wade was overturned, Labor is making bold moves to improve access to safe and legal medical abortions in Australia. Find out more about The Front podcast here and read about this story and more on The Australian's website or search for The Australian in your app store. This episode of The Front is presented and produced by Kristen Amiet, and edited by Tiffany Dimmack. Our regular host is Claire Harvey. The multimedia editor is Lia Tsamoglou, and original music composed by Jasper Leak.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

South Australian senator and shadow minister for health and sport Anne Ruston (pictured, centre) joins us on Flow to outline whey the Coalition Opposition want oversight on how the Queensland state government spends public funds to build facilities for the 2032 Olympics, responds to assistant minister for health Ged Kearney's formation of a panel to investigate what the Labor MP calls 'medical misogyny' and discusses efforts by shadow assistant minister for health Dr Anne Webster to draw attention to reform in regional health service provision.

The Albanese government has announced it will set up a National Women's Health Advisory Council to tackle medical misogyny, with members being announced on Tuesday and the first meeting set for 20 February. But what is medical misogyny and what can a national council really do to address it? Jane Lee speaks to the assistant minister for health, Ged Kearney, and the Guardian's associate news editor, Gabrielle Jackson, about why such a council is needed. Plus: we hear from three women who have experienced sexist treatment while seeking medical care

‘Once a nurse, always a nurse' is the attitude that Labor's Ged Kearney is bringing to her role as Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care.This week, Ms Kearney joined The Tea Room to chat nursing, aged care, worker advocacy and refugee healthcare.The area that she's most keen to sink her teeth into, though, is how healthcare is delivered differently between the sexes – the effects of which, Ms Kearney says, are “write large before our very noses”.“Starting at the top, [I am] getting everybody that I know who cares about this – and there's a lot of people out there that do care about this – to sit around a table and design perhaps an inquiry or a deep dive into [women's health outcomes],” she says.Before entering politics in 2018, Ms Kearney worked as a nurse on a gastrointestinal ward and was federal secretary of the Australian Nursing Federation and in 2010 was elected president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions.Experience in both healthcare and union work have influenced her priorities for the role going forward.“I'm interested in healthcare for [culturally and linguistically diverse] groups, for our migrant communities, for our LGBTIQ communities for people who, for various reasons, have really serious barriers in accessing the healthcare system, particularly the primary health care system,” Ms Kearney says.

Newly appointed (like,4 days) federal Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care Ged Kearney dives deep into LGBTIQA+ issues (and more); tributes for the awesome ally Nanette McGregor and please sign funky 56yo Sally's first ever e-petition

News Headlines Media reporting on justice for PalestineUpdate on India travel banParliament banned from speaking to the mediaPolice banned from Pride marches in New YorkMidsumma Pride marchKannagi interviews Bridget from Pride in Protest about banning the police from Pride. Pride in Protest is a collective of activists who campaign for social justice and have two positions on the Sydney Mardi Gras Board. They want to bring back the proud protest roots of Mardi Gras and fight collectively against systems and structures that maintain injustice. Sign the open letter to ban police from being involved in Pride here!Speech by Jeanine Hourani from the Free Palestine rally in Melbourne.Sally Goldner from Out of the Pan talks about a human centered response to transphobia.Evie interviews Celeste Liddle about running as the Greens candidate for the seat of Cooper.  Celeste Liddle is an Arrente woman living and working on unceded Wurundjeri lands. She is a trade unionist, a freelance opinion writer and social commentator, and as of this past week she is also the nominated Victorian Greens candidate to run in the seat of Cooper in the next Federal Election, coming up against Labor’s Ged Kearney.SongsNative Tongue - Mo'JuSunshine - Spinifex GumA Quality of Mercy - RVGTake it Down - JessB

In our summer special series, we bring you some of our favourite guests from the Australia Institute’s webinar series in 2020. In this episode, host Ebony Bennett talks to Ged Kearney MP, Shadow Assistant Minister for Skills and the Shadow Assistant Minister for Aged Care, Beris Campbell, Board member of Homeshare and Ruth Kestermann, CEO of Holdsworth Community Sydney for a discussion on Australia's critical but badly neglected aged care sector and how we can help older Australians to age well, preferably at home.The full webinar is available on the Australia Institute’s YouTube channel here.Host: Ebony Bennett // @ebony_bennettGuests:Ged Kearney MP, Shadow Assistant Minister for Skills and the Shadow Assistant Minister for Aged Care, Member for Cooper // @gedkearneyBeris Campbell, Board member, HomeshareRuth Kestermann, CEO, Holdsworth Community SydneyProducer: Jennifer Macey // @jennifermaceyTheme music is by Jonathan McFeat from Pulse and Thrum

So, here's the thing. Nurses and midwives account for 50% of the global health workforce. Did you know that? That's a lot! We're quite a force. What intrigues me more about that is that while we're 50% of the workforce, our representation at the policymaking, political level or the boardroom is... at best, scant. Our role bears witness to the real experiences of people who accessing health and community services at an international level across all geopolitical and social spectrums. Truly, we see it all. So why is our nursing and midwifery voice not being heard where decisions about how health and community services are delivered? There a lots of reasons, but one is opportunity. You can't just saunter in to a boardroom and just making decisions. Australian federal MP, Ged Kearney is a proud Australian example of one of our tribe who transitioned from nurse to policymaker. But Ged's journey was long, so how do we get our start in having the nursing and midwifery voice heard? Sue chats with one of our regulars here at the Nursing & Midwifery Emporium's podcast, Wendy McIntosh because she's got a solution for us that you might not have expected: Rotary for Nurses!

We discuss Wikipedia edits, encryption laws, corona detention and McLean's trip to the Labor party's town hall on climate change.  News updatesDid Department of Social Services secretary Kathryn Campbell edit her own Wikipedia page?The Australian Financial Review suggests a guaranteed income and a strong social safety net would help Australia come out of the Covid Depression.Sydney Bus drivers called off a strike after their demands for PPE were met before the strike began.Corona detentionA Four Corners investigation has shown that doctors warned infection dangers in Victoria’s hotel quarantine, but were ignored by DHHS until the outbreak.The Federal government is reopening the Cristmas Island detention center, at a cost of $55m over 6 months.The Biloela asylum seeker family are still in immigration detention, even after the government has been forced to pay $200,000 in legal fees for breaking procedural fairness.Climate newsBHP is selling off it’s thermal coal mines over the next two years.It’s free real estate!As far as I can tell, Dan Andrews has not weighed in on Juukan Gorge — Ed.Tom McLean’s open letter to the Terri Butler, Mark Butler and Ged Kearney explaining his question, and why climate change action needs to be personal.Computer nerd stuffDespite claims it was urgently needed, neither ASIO or the AFP is yet to use the anti-encryption laws passed in 2018.Peter Dutton wants additional powers to spy on Australian citizens though.Victoria Police are using precog algorithms to detect possible predict youth offenders.Monash University research has shown that these systems are used for racial profiling, to great negative effect.ActionsListen to Evie on the No Turning Back podcast

Kevin and Anne talk with ALP federal representative Ged Kearney, who harkens back to the remarkable 1945 White Paper "Full Employment in Australia." The White Paper demonstrates policy makers knew back then that lack of jobs was caused by insufficient aggregate demand for labour, not because women and robots were taking them away. Now we are facing 25% labour underutilisation, where to from here?Send feedback on this episode to radiommt@gmail.com.

Today on Moments of Clarity, I speak to Ged Kearney.  Ged Kearney is the Federal Member for Cooper. Ged has served in the parliament since March 2018, when she was elected in a by-election. Ged is the first woman to hold the seat. Ged is the Shadow Assistant Minister for Skills and the Shadow Assistant Minister for Aged Care. Ged started her working life as a nurse and rose to become Federal Secretary of the Australian Nursing Federation. From 2010, Ged served as the president of the ACTU – the peak body of Australia’s union movement – where she fought for better conditions for Australian workers. Ged’s working life – from nurse to President of the ACTU to parliamentarian – has been about fighting for the rights of others. She is a strong voice for workers’ rights and social justice inside Labor and the Parliament. Ged is a passionate advocate for the environment, asylum seekers, education, universal healthcare and decent jobs. Ged was born and raised in Melbourne and lived in Cooper for over 25 years. Ged has four children, two stepdaughters and two much loved grandchildren. To find out more about Ged you can visit:www.gedkearney.org.auTwitter: @gedkearneyInstagram: @gedkearneyFacebook: @gedkearneylaborGed Kearney's recent op-ed in The Age: https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/full-employment-could-be-the-answer-to-rebuilding-the-economy-20200511-p54rw0.html You can now follow Moments of Clarity on social media!Instagram: @momentsofclaritypodcastFacebook: @momentsofclaritypodcastTwitter @BarneyMOC Podcast By Matthew "Barney" SortinoMusic by Christian ProchiloArtwork by Michael Chrisanthopoulos

Having worked as a nurse and a nurse educator, Ged found herself in the challenging and exciting world of politics in her forties, while raising a young family. Now working as an advocate for local communities of the disenfranchised and vulnerable, Ged is making a massive impact in her local community and at the federal level. In this inspiring episode, she shares her journey and offers insight, advice and support for anyone who is considering a career in politics.

How do you bring about change in the real world? Tash sat down with federal member for Cooper Ged Kearney to discuss just that. She talked about her efforts to change asylum seeker policy in Australia, as well as campaigning for worker's rights. Ged was a delight to speak to - she was open, honest, told some really great stories, and didn't have any of the characteristics you would expect from a 'typical' politician. No three word slogans, no dodging questions, no repeating party lines ad nauseum. She also gave some excellent tips for managing change at a federal level which can easily be applied to how we lead change in the corporate world. Ged recommends:The Young Pope on SBS on demandDark Emu by Bruce PascoeToo Much Lip by Melissa Lukashenko

Kath Larkin is a unionist and socialist activist. She’s the Victorian Socialists candidate for the seat of Cooper (formerly Batman) in the 2019 federal election, running against Labor’s Ged Kearney. In this conversation Kath told me about asking Jordan Peterson a question on Q&A (that he didn’t like), her history of union organising, why she’s running in Cooper (and whether she’s going to win), her vision of a socialist future in Australia and she maintains hope in the idea of achieving radical change. You can become a Patron of the show and help cover the basic costs of making this thing happen (please) ENOUGH is coming to Sydney Comedy Festival for 4 shows only  ENOUGH is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August @vic_socialists Kath Larkin's Victorian Socialists candidate page Kath Larkin's campaign on Facebook  Kath's writing for Red Flag Kath's episode of Q&A  Cause of the Week: Victorian Socialists (victoriansocialists.org.au) 

Ged Kearney MP (ALP Member for Batman) Ged was born and raised in Melbourne and lived in the electorate of Batman for 20 years. She started her working life as a nurse and rose to become Federal Secretary of the Australian Nursing Federation. From 2010, Ged served as the elected president of the ACTU – the peak body of Australia’s union movement – where she has been fighting for better conditions for Australian workers. Ged fought John Howard’s Workchoices to protect our rights at work, and is a passionate advocate for social justice and gender equality in the workplace. This is the third event of Victorian Fabians' Spring Series for 2018, co-hosted by the Labor Environment Action Network (LEAN), at which we'll discuss environmental sustainability and equality, with talks by Dr Bruce Lindsay and Ged Kearney MP. The 2018 IPCC report on climate change says we have about 12 years to act to keep climate change to 1.5 degrees. The action required to prevent increasing CO2 will be both rapid and dislocating but not anywhere near as dislocating as the effects of higher than 1.5 degrees of warming. Many of the impacts from climate risks and remedies will disproportionately affect the more disadvantaged in our society. This represents a threat to our progressive social democracy. How do we act on climate change and sustain a thriving diverse environment, human well-being and equality all at the same time?  

After the Smoke Clears – Episode 2For more information go to: www.afterthesmokeclears.com.auToday we return to the Latrobe Valley – to ask “what is a just transition?”  In other words how can we phase out coal and phase in renewables without hurting the families and communities that relied on coal for income and power.We are joined by:Michael Mersmann: the Director of Globalisation and European Policy,  for the German Union for Mining,  Chemicals and Energy workers.  He presided over what is widely considered one of the most successful examples of transitioning from Coal to renewables in history. Between 1997 to 2015 a partnership between government,  industry and the unions oversaw the reduction of 72,820 jobs.  Their credo and philosophy was “that no miner would be unemployed”. Geoff Dyke: is the Victorian branch secretary of the mining and energy division of the CFMEU and Moe resident.  Geoff experienced first-hand exactly what privatisation meant for the Latrobe Valley community and workers.  He can testify to exactly what happens when a transition is not managed correctly – the opposite of a just transition has to be an unjust transition. Ged Kearney: Ged Kearney is the member for Batman in federal parliament but back in 2016.  When the closure of Hazelwood was announced,  she was the president of the ACTU.  I’ve asked Ged to come on the show because of her outspoken support of a Just Transition. 10 Sep 2018|Categories: Community Show

After a massive win on Saturday evening in Batman, Nicola spoke to Ged Kearney - the newly elected Federal Member for Batman.   When Ged took the stage in Thornbury on Saturday night in front of over 700 Labor supporters - the room went wild. Discover the path she and the Labor campaign forged to chalk up this historic-against the odds victory.

Byelections are not just important in the obvious sense of their results, but also for the confidence of political players. On Saturday Labor and Bill Shorten face a major test in the Melbourne seat of Batman, traditionally Labor but with the Greens now threatening the ALP’s hold. A Labor loss would be a blow to the morale of the opposition - it would also open some debate within the party about Shorten’s performance and what should be done to combat the Greens at the next election. On the other hand, if the ALP’s Ged Kearney came home victorious Labor would be well placed to put the heat on Malcolm Turnbull if as is expected the prime minister loses his 30th newspoll in a few weeks. We went to Batman in the final days of the campaign and spoke to Kearney and the Greens candidate Alex Bhathal as well as former deputy prime minister Brian Howe, who once held the seat, and former Greens leader, Bob Brown.

President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Kearney on contesting the Batman by-election for Labor.

President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Kearney on contesting the Batman by-election for Labor.

Former nurse, long-time activist and more recently ACTU President, Ged is now Labor’s candidate for Batman.   For most of our listeners, Ged needs no introduction. In fact, you might remember our chat with her last year.   And *spoiler alert*, she’s still pretty fired up about fighting inequality, schools funding, protecting workers’ rights and preserving Medicare.

The establishment at Victoria University has joined with Murdoch University in its anti worker stance. This time instead of cutting the eba like Murdoch Uni Vu has sacked the Union negotiating committee.  Workers and their supporters were down at the VU city campus on Flinders Street Melbourne while the secretive University Council met. Stick Together was there.News ItemsACTU calls for Living WageStreets Summer Campaign launched http://www.amwu.org.au/streets_free_summerTaubman Paints PicketCash sees fall in Apprenticeships & rise in youth unemploymentEvents: Geelong Union Women's Conference NOv 11/ Ged Kearney speech marking 10 years after Howard's Work Choices Nov 24

7:00am Introduction and Acknowledgement of  Country 7:05am GLW news items: equal marriage campaign and updates: Rohingya refugees update: recent government concessions to the private health insurance by targeting youth.7:15am Interview with Dick Nichols from Barcelona about the Catalonia referendum and independence.7:45am Interview with Ged Kearny, president of the ACTU about the Federal court affirming the FWC's judgement on cut in penalty rates for working on weekends and public holidays.8:00am GLW activist calendar8:10am Interview with Paul Adams from VU branch of the NTEU in relation to the targeted sacking of staff within the current EBA negotiationsOngoing reports from Ctalonia in this blog.

With: President of the Council of Trade Unions, Ged Kearney. Secretary of Unions NSW, Mark Morey. RTBU Secretary, Alex Classens. Australian Services union, Natalie Lang. Member of the NSW Legislative Council, John Graham.

With: President of the Council of Trade Unions, Ged Kearney. Secretary of Unions NSW, Mark Morey. RTBU Secretary, Alex Classens. Australian Services union, Natalie Lang. Member of the NSW Legislative Council, John Graham.

Australian News.Discussion about the current budget in Australia.Liberals’ budget reveals looming attacks on students and universitiesAnti-Poverty Network slams budget: 'Targetted, mean-spirited attacks on welfare recipients'Community assembly halts Patricks at Port BotanyWorld News.Discussion about the alledged Russian spy scandal in the US election.Britain: Corbyn presents a radical alternativeFrance: Le Pen loses, but struggle against Macron brings new challengesPalestinian hunger strikers risk all for ‘freedom & dignity’Interviews.Ged Kearney, President of the ACTU on the ramifications of the budget on the Australian people. Listen here.CFMEU, Andrew Vendramini, assistant district secretary on STRIKE action that has taken place at the North Wangaratta Alpine MDF plant after Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (EBA) discussions between management and union broke down. Listen here.

News from Loy Yang, FairFax and Queensland MUA.Privatising of community services is a recipe for putting profit before people. We speak to Simone White from the NSW  Rape and Domestic Violence Service and a ASU member.We will follow up why Ged Kearney from the ACTU resigned from the Federal Governments Ministerial Advisory Council for Skilled Migration (MASCM) as soon as Turnbull announced the 457 visa would be dropped.

On this week's episode of Pod on the Hill, Victorian Labor's Nicola Castleman sits down with the President of the ACTU Ged Kearney. Ged talks about her journey into unionism, the current penalty rates campaign and her love of those mighty Tiges!

Jacob and Zane discuss protests against visit to Australia by Israeliprime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Discussion of protest against criminalisation of homelessness persons at White Night, and of upcoming protests.Discussion of fascist grouplet Soldiers of Odour trying to cohere a lynch mob in Melton to attack African Australian people, based on a completely fabricated story.Discussion of US based far right activist Milo Yiannopoulous being shunned by a publishing company and by far right organisations after making comments condoning pedophilia.Discussion of attacks on native title law with new legislation implemented by Federal Attorney general George Brandis aimed at further weakening native title provisions and giving mining companies including Adani even greater access to Aboriginal land than is already the case.Jacob and Zane interview Stephanie Cousins from Amnesty International about the organisation’s latest annual State of the World’s HumanRights report, including reports of a culture of fear and hatred in many countries, the ongoing abuses in Australia, including the high level of incaceration of Aboriginal people, the ongoing policy of locking up refugees and asylum seekers, and regressive metadata and foreign fighter legislation. Listen Here.ActivistcalendarJacob and Zane interview Australian Council of Trade Unions President Ged Kearney about the Fair Work Commission’s decision to cut Sunday penalty rates for retail, fast food and pharmaceutical workers, and how this decision will potentially affect around 750,000 workers and will reduce their pay, in what will be the biggest backward step for wages since the Great Depression. Listen Here. Jacob and Zane interview Socialist Alliance member and Repower Port Augusta activist Gemma Weedall, about the community led campaign to build a new dispatchable solar thermal plant at Port Augusta, how this would complement the variable output of South Australia’s fleet of wind farms, providing alternative employment for former coal workers in the region, and how private operators have been gaming the energy system to maximise profits and then blaming the energy supply issues on renewables. Listen Here.

This week on Stick Together we speak with ACTU President, Ged Kearney about the year that was and look forward to what 2017 holds for the trade union movement.We also speak with Ella Fabry from the Timor Sea Justice campaign about recent developments in the dispute between Timor Leste and Australia over resources in the Timor Sea.The extedned interview with Ged Kearney can be found here.

Ged Kearney is the president of the ACTU, and former president of the ANMF.  In this podcast, Karen Keast talks to Ged Kearney about her nursing career, the state of the health system, union dynamics and her aspirations to enter politics.

Work Equality isn't just about wage equivalence. Having work places that plan for women to leave to have children and be able to come back within a year is a measure of Australia's global gender gap rating. The CEO of Breastfeeding Australia says that Australia has fallen to 36th place from a a15th place ten years ago. We speak to Sally Shepherdson about her experience with a company that plans for the success of their female employees. The Turnbull Government recently suggested lower paid workers should be kicked out of the Superannuation system. Women will be most affected according to Ged Kearney from the ACTU. It is a bad idea she says.

Comments on Malclom Turnbull as new PM and the affect on IR policy by Ged Kearney; Build a Better Future door knocking campaign; Hands off Australia Post protest 12 Sept; CPSU strike at international airports for resolution of pay and conditions dispute.

The question of Commission Dyson Heydon's 'accidental' acceptance of speaking engagement at a Liberal Party fundraiser is inspected by Humphrey McQueen and Ged Kearney from the ACTU has something to say about the Senate rejection of two anti union bills.

This episode asks the question why are short term visas being used to put Australian film technicians out of work when the ICC World Cup Cricket is playing in town. Ged Kearney the ACTU President explains why it is so important that wage inequality between women and men needs to be change.

Ged Kearney, President ACTU, talks about the Abbott government's Fair Work amendment bill. Followed by discussion about labour and class politics in New Zealand/Aotearoa with Joe Carolan, UNITE union organiser and candidate for the MANA party in the upcoming elections.

Interview with Ged Kearney on Abbott Government's performance in regard to job creation and we go to Victoria Parliament steps with protestors over purposed the changes to the Summary Offences Act.