Last month, Twiggy Forrest published full-page advertisements in newspapers across Australia challenging export processor JBS over the company’s animal welfare performance.
It’s time to overhaul the traditional training model
Albert Einstein is credited as saying “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” It is time to view the traditional Vocational Education and Training (VET) model as bordering on insanity.
We all need to get back to work, and do it very soon
With all the debate and divisiveness that is going on around the country within our own industry and the community in general, we need to start to pull together to get our country moving and get our economy back on track.
If you are starting a new business, read this first
Far too many get caught up in the excitement of going into business for themselves that they miss some critical steps that can make or break a business.
Improving safety and productivity for industry
The NHVR is continuing to focus on the dangers of illegal engine remapping with the latest round of information highlighting the safety risks of speed limiter tampering.
Essential freight drivers must get priority Covid jab
The transport industry was awash with speculation about jurisdictions mandating Covid vaccinations for interstate truck drivers, with Queensland and New South Wales setting notional deadlines for freight workers to get a first jab as condition of entry.
Government must legislate change to help truckies
The TWU knows that workers want to get on with their jobs, be paid fairly, be kept safe while they drive and need the federal government to set up a national plan that does not keep them guessing as to which border closes next, where they can get tested or where they can go if they choose to be vaccinated.
Supporting Australia’s growing freight challenge
I have been involved in the transport industry for most of my life. In Central Queensland and across the state, I sat behind the wheel and employed others who did.
Open letter: Our truck drivers will be ostracised next
Dear All,
There is currently a frenzied campaign being undertaken to breed fear of the un-vaccinated. Read more
Opinion: From the kitchen table of the Bored Neurotic Housewife
Opinion pieces in media are just that – the writer’s opinion. Bias, unbalanced, misinformation, passion, fiery, food for thought and many other adjectives. Read more