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THE Construction Forestry, Mining and Energy Union has responded to claims by EnergyAustralia workers not locked out of the Yallourn plant of were the victims of harassment and threatening behaviour as they entered and left the site.

The wives of workers entering their fourth week of an EnergyAustralia-imposed lockout of the Yallourn Power Station say their families are suffering financial strain and emotional turmoil as a result of the industrial deadlock.

COMMUTERS travelling on V/Line's Traralgon line can now use Myki after the ticketing system was introduced on Monday.

THE case for Gippsland to be included in any high speed rail plans for Australia has again been mounted, despite a preferred route excluding this region.

The first sod is yet to be turned on a $1.2 million Traralgon housing project for people with a severe mental illness, but one advocacy group has already set plans in motion to duplicate the facility in every major Gippsland town.

A PROPOSAL by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to radically overhaul the process of electing the Australian Labor Party's leader has been widely welcomed by local union representatives, despite a 'crisis' meeting of some national union bosses reportedly being held over the plans tomorrow.

The lead negotiator in the Latrobe Valley power industry's most intense industrial dispute since 2000 will resign from his union post.

LATROBE Valley towns have recorded a slight dip in their jobless rates, according to the most recent data.

INTERNATIONAL Boxing Organisation super-featherweight world champion Will Tomlinson will stand for the Palmer United Party in the seat of Gippsland at the next federal election.

A union, a power station and a priest. Industrial deadlock at Yallourn will today be graced with the sort of peacemaker not typically seen in a power sector dispute.

The power industry's state and national union powerbrokers are being summoned for high level talks this week, to develop contingency plans should industrial turmoil at Yallourn continue to deteriorate.

A Moe man has received an unreserved apology from the management of West Gippsland Hospital, after a communication breakdown led to a last-minute cancellation of gall-bladder surgery