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Doctors protest for more pay and better conditions outside NSW Health headquarters in St Leonards on Tuesday.

Emergency beds closed, doctors offered $2000 a day to work as strike begins

Around 370 patients had elective surgeries cancelled as more than 3500 doctors walked off the job on Tuesday.

  • Angus Thomson

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The Sydney hospitals to be hit hardest by three-day doctors’ strike

Surgeries have been cancelled and non-urgent patients told to avoid the state’s emergency departments as hospitals brace for unprecedented industrial action.

  • Angus Thomson
Non-compete clauses are weighing down the economy.

The fine print costing Australians a pay rise

It’s a clause in job contracts costing one in five Australians. Here’s why banning it is a boon to more than just our salaries.

  • Millie Muroi
A poster notifying patients of ASMOF NSW’s decision to strike from 8-10 April 2025.

‘Unprecedented’: NSW doctors to defy court order and strike for three days

The union wants a 30 per cent pay rise and working conditions that better address worker fatigue.

  • Angus Thomson
Junior doctors and Australian Salaried Medical Officers’ Federation (ASMOF NSW) members at a rally in Newcastle in February.

Doctors ordered to call off three-day strike in latest pay dispute

It is unclear whether hundreds of NSW doctors will defy the demand and walk off the job for three days next week.

  • Angus Thomson
Australian workers will be free to change jobs for a pay rise more easily under an Albanese government proposal to ban non-compete agreements that prevent staff defecting to other employers or starting their own business.

The fine print that makes it easier to quit your job – and earn more money

Up to 3 million workers will be free to change jobs under a government proposal to ban non-compete agreements that prevent staff defecting to other employers.

  • Nick Bonyhady
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Senator James Paterson.

‘I won’t be intimidated’: Coalition frontbencher fires back at Gatto

The Liberal Party senator won’t take backward step after underworld figure Mick Gatto threatened to sue.

  • Mathew Dunckley and Olivia Ireland
Sydney train commuters endured repeated disruptions over months from industrial action before Fair Work last month halted it until July 1.

Sydney spared return to train chaos after court throws out appeal

A union representing almost 1000 rail workers has been unsuccessful in its appeal to the Federal Court of a months-long suspension of industrial action.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
The West Gate Tunnel project in Melbourne.

Companies on public projects exposed in CFMEU federal police probe

More businesses with ties to bikies and the underworld have been revealed as the gangland corruption scandal deepens.

  • Nick McKenzie and Sarah Danckert
Industrial action by rail workers has crippled Sydney’s train network on multiple occasions since late last year.

‘Further apart than before’: Legal twist threatens truce in Sydney train dispute

The unions want an order suspending industrial action on Sydney’s rail network until July revoked, claiming that it is not helping to resolve the dispute.

  • Matt O'Sullivan

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