Throughout workplaces and communities supporters like you speak up, take action and make change happen.

We’ve just ticked over on the one year anniversary of the last Queensland election, an election where union members like you made change happen and changed how politics is done.

That was an amazing effort driven by union members and supporters who refused to accept the job cuts, below inflation pay and privatisation under Campbell Newman’s LNP. You talked, planned, doorknocked and voted to send a message and won.

This morning Australia found out about Malcolm Turnbull’s radical plan to destroy the TAFE system as we know it. The plan, leaked to news outlets, would see fees sky rocket as low-grade private training providers engage in a race to the bottom. Turnbull’s plan is Campbell Newman’s radical agenda for TAFE but on steroids.

Information Sessions

We’ve spoken a lot about a Human Rights Act for Queensland but what does it actually mean? Find out and have your say on one of the sessions being run across the state by the Anti-Discrimination Commission, starting in two weeks’ time.  You can RSVP and find out details here. 

Just like that – 2015 is coming to a close. This will be the final Working For Queenslanders update for the year. 

It’s a time of year to celebrate, congratulations on every action you have taken this year for change. You’ve helped make Queensland a better place to live, work and grow by standing up against privatisation of public services and helping to defeat Campbell Newman’s LNP.

Tax talk is in. 

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is testing the waters on tax, some of his Ministers and backbenchers are out arguing for an increase in the GST. An increase that would cost working people more to buy daily basics.

Summer's fast approaching, with storm season upon us in many parts of Queensland. 

There's also been significant political change over the past month, a new Prime Minister, Labour Day Public Holiday is back in May and the Trans-Pacific Partnership was signed by our Federal Government, a deal the public still knows very little about. 

Nearly 6000 people have signed our petition to call on Lawrence Springborg to walk away from privatisation once and for all. 

Many supporters have expressed their disbelief following Lawrence Springborg's remarks that Queenslanders may 'reconsider' privatisation.

After Queenslanders made it abundantly clear over the past two elections that they want quality services, not privatisation. There's increasing speculation that Lawrence Springborg is facing internal pressure as his party remains in the political wilderness, still unable to come to terms with their electoral loss and why it happened. 

Lawrence Springborg is talking privatisation and his desperation is showing. 

In a media interview yesterday he said that Queenslanders could reconsider privatisation after looking at the NSW experience. 

"So maybe one day the voters might want to reconsider that sort of thing."

Tell Lawrence Springborg to walk away from privatisation once and for all.

First of all, thank you to those people who connected with us and gave us feedback on our first weekly update. It's great to know so many of you are engaged with the issues that matter and ready to take action for change. 

Former Premier Campbell Newman has announced plans to start working in the agricultural robotics industry. In his first interview since leaving office Campbell Newman was quick to blame the media for his government’s loss and ignored his government’s record of lies, cuts and privatisation that hurt so many Queenslanders. Campbell Newman claims, “I was portrayed as an uncaring, bad person”, maybe it’s worth asking the 14,000 workers he sacked or why his government cut preventative health services, or why he attacked the judiciary?