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Time to step up: CFMEU

The union representing 75 locked-out Yallourn power station operators has called on alternative unions to "step up to the plate", after a return to enterprise bargaining negotiations this week ended without agreement.

Yallourn water discharge increased

The operator of Yallourn's waterlogged brown coal mine cut has been granted a 60 per cent increase to its water discharge allowance by the Environment Protection Authority.

Gonski uncertainty lingers

Significant discrepancies in Gonski funding projections for some Latrobe Valley schools remain un-addressed, with the Federal leadership changeover casting a further cloud of uncertainty over Victoria's inclusion in the reforms.

Ambos reject govt claims

PARAMEDICS have rejected claims by the State Government last week they had not made a "genuine" effort to resolve a protracted industrial dispute.

Convoy protest

MONASH Gippsland campus staff fear the implications for their workplace arrangements if enterprise agreement talks are not resolved before University of Ballarat takes over the campus in January next year.

Uni name released

FEDERATION University Australia is the new entity that will represent Monash Gippsland and University of Ballarat's campuses from 1 January next year.

Work bans cause angst for students

WHILE Monash Gippsland campus staff union members have moved to defend work bans on releasing some students' semester results, numerous students are not impressed.

Electoral game-changer

The state seat of Morwell will be re-shaped to encompass Latrobe Valley's three major towns if proposed changes to electoral boundaries are adopted.

Sex abuse accused pleads guilty

A 21 year-old Morwell man has pleaded guilty to eight sexual offence charges involving five different children.

Pool proposal misses out

A BID for Federal Government funds to build a Gippsland Regional Aquatic Centre in Traralgon has failed amid accusations "regional" money had been "siphoned off to city-based projects".

Car careers off bridge

A Morwell man is in a critical but stable condition in the Alfred Hospital, after his car left the McDonald Street bridge, and landed beside the railway tracks.

Sudan tragedy saddens refugees

It's the call nobody ever wants to receive - news of a loved one passing. It comes as a devastating shock to most, but to refugees, it can be all too familiar.

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