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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Matthew Kelly

HISTORICAL FACTS: Hunter unions back voice and transition authority | History Defined

Union members celebrate May Day at Foreshore Park. Picture by Leigh Shears.

Achieving a Yes vote of at least 80 per cent for the upcoming Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum and establishing a national transition authority will be top priorities for Hunter unions in the next 12 months.

"We are backing our Indigenous brothers and sisters and also progressing the policies and initiatives that workers took to the federal and state elections particularly around the public sector and public services and manufacturing," Hunter Workers secretary Leigh Shears said at Sunday's Newcastle May Day rally.

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