Victorian training and skills minister Steve Herbert has praised manufacturer Alstom for the training and development program operated out of its rollingstock facility in Ballarat.
Herbert visited the
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Drama at ports as Newcastle blocked, Patrick-MUA bicker
It’s been a dramatic few days on Australia’s waterfront, with climate change protestors blocking trade at the Port of Newcastle, and one of the nation’s biggest stevedores squaring off with the maritime
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Aurizon adds Macquarie banker to board
Macquarie Capital executive director Kate Vidgen will join rail group Aurizon as a non-executive director later this year.
Vidgen, currently responsible for Macquarie’s energy and resources sector investments,
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TrackSAFE launches employee wellbeing app on Rail R U OK?Day
The TrackSAFE Foundation has marked the 2016 Rail R U OK?Day by launching a new trauma support app aimed at helping the 110,000 employees of the Australian rail industry.
The RailRes app is designed to
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Up to 25 years for assaulting SA transport workers
South Australian public transport minister Stephen Mullighan says tough new penalties for assaulting public transport workers underline the state government’s “zero tolerance” approach.
Jail sentences
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QR teams up with TAFE for training centre
Queensland Rail has officially opened its new off-site training facility, in conjunction with TAFE Queensland SkillsTech at its Acacia Ridge campus.
The new state-funded Rail Centre of Excellence features
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TrackSAFE joins fight for Government focus on suicide
COMMENT: Coming off the back of the new reports released from the ABS indicating suicide as the leading cause of premature deaths in Australia, the TrackSAFE Foundation executive director Naomi Frauenfelder
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Unions the target of PM’s double dissolution threat
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has essentially presented the Senate with an ultimatum: pass laws to more strictly monitor the nation’s unions, or face a rare double dissolution election.
Turnbull made
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Merger on the cards for MUA, CFMEU
Maritime Union of Australia members have voted in favour of merger talks with the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, in a move which is set to create a single, more influential union across
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Parsons Brinkerhoff adds to transport group
Engineering firm WSP|Parsons Brinkerhoff has recently added three senior leaders to its transport team.
The company said this week it has added Richard Boggon, Erica Adamson and Peter Letts in various
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