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Join us in Sydney for internationalism’s night of nights at our annual Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA Global Solidarity Dinner. This year has taken us to unsettling new places and now, more than ever, it’s important to come together as a community to celebrate the hard-fought wins through the power of worker-to-worker solidarity! The powerful few who continue […]

Join us in Melbourne for internationalism’s night of nights at our annual Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA Global Solidarity Dinner. This year has taken us to unsettling new places and now, more than ever, it’s important to come together as a community to celebrate the hard-fought wins through the power of worker-to-worker solidarity! The powerful few who continue […]

APHEDA Action Network Meanjin Brisbane is hosting its annual Quiz Night Dinner to raise funds to support the work of Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA, the global justice organisation of the Australian union movement. It will be a quiz of skill and chance, with only one team walking away with bragging rights and the coveted Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA […]

The Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee has delivered one of Australia’s most definitive assessments of the situation in Myanmar. Its findings are clear: the junta’s 2025–26 election was neither free, fair, nor inclusive.

Unions and activists alike took up the call around the country to organise Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA activities to foster solidarity between working people in Australia and around the world.

When governments attack aid and development, it’s often been union movement solidarity organisations like us that are hit first and hardest. This has certainly been the case for our sister organisations in Europe and the US, who have faced devastating cuts. At Union Aid Abroad–APHEDA, we have always understood this risk, but also know that worker-to-worker solidarity cannot be cut, regardless of who is in power.

The environmental toll of the textile and garment sector is staggering: mountains of fabric waste, and carbon-heavy transport crisscrossing the globe. These impacts aren’t abstract—they are experienced firsthand by workers and their communities.

Few people will be as impacted by the coal phase-out as coal workers will. Clearly, they need to front and centre of the planning for the closure of mines and deeply involved in the preparations for life after mining. Without the voice of workers and unions shaping these plans, there will be no just transition.  Through the Innovation Regions for a Just Energy Transition (IKIJET) project, Union Aid Abroad–APHEDA has […]

Climate change is exacerbating environmental hazards globally, including the risks of asbestos exposure. Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent, and the interplay between aging and deteriorating infrastructure, often contaminated with asbestos, is endangering public health.

Since 2024, SA Unions and the Working Women’s Centre SA have teamed up to support two Timorese women unionists to travel to Adelaide and participate in the Anna Stewart Memorial project.