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Byelection humiliation a coal, hard lesson for Labor We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss May 25, 2021 — 12.10am Save Normal text size Credit: Fairfax Media In the wake of Labor’s calamitous showing in the Upper Hunter byelection, you’d think Joel Fitzgibbon would be keeping a low profile (“Fresh internal stoush for ALP over pro-coal vision”, May 24). After all, NSW Labor followed his prescription for success – full-throated support for coal – and it spectacularly backfired. But no, he’s doing the roun...

Privatisation fetish will ensure budget spending splurge fails We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss May 12, 2021 — 12.05am Normal text size Credit: I did not know whether to laugh or cry as I read your story (“Intensive support: Budget to offer to retrain Australians in new skills”, May 11). Haven’t we heard this before? How is this ‘you beaut’ training or retraining going to happen? More dodgy, rip-off private so-called training colleges that have a history of defrauding taxpayers of eye-watering amounts of money? We did have a w...

Michael Annisette - In keeping with the theme of this year’s May Day celebrations, Unite to Fight, trade unionists urged one another to work together to save the labour movement from decimation. All the leaders who spoke at the virtual event on Saturday criticised and accused the Government as well and employers of unfair practices. Head of the Seamen and Waterfront Workers Trade Union, Michael Annisette, sought to justify why the three federations left the National Tripartite Advisory Council (NTAC). Annisette said "not one piece of legislation was put on the parliamentary table" to addre...

ASKED to capture scenes of nature, it is not unusual for Ilkley Camera Club members to produce some top quality images. But last month’s nature competition saw a standard that particularly impressed visiting judge Monica Weller, a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. Top of the list was a stunning image by Larry James of a Kestrel feeding its young. Said Monica: “This image has everything. The action is typical of the animal, the colours are vibrant and exciting and the focusing is spot on.” Geoffrey Smith from Skipton took second place with a shot of a Sparrowhawk. “I kn...

ASKED to offer three takes on the same subject, Tim Sawyer from Bramhope offered three images that were artistic variations on the famous Gormley figures on Crosby Beach. They very much caught the eye of Ilkley Camera Club’s visiting judge, Kylie-Ann Martin, last Friday and won Tim first place in the Three of a Kind competition. “Here the photographer has put his own stamp on another person’s artwork. That’s what I like since I am assessing the photographer’s skills not the artist’s,” said Kylie. Awarding second place, she praised three snowy scenes in a park taken by Le...