1. About Us
(The Campaign/About Us)

Working journalists at Fairfax  are fighting for their right to deliver information to the public free from interference by big business. Fair Go Fairfax is the official campaign site for work

2. Sign our Petition
(The Campaign/Actions)

I support the working journalists at Fairfax publications and websites, who are threatened by the big business agenda of its corporate managers. It is fundamentally unfair that Fairfax reporters,

3. Richard Glover's Pledge
(The Campaign/Actions)

...n unjustified and provocative act by Fairfax management. It has long been accepted practice that when staff journalists are on strike, columnists should also remove their labour. Mike Carlton did...

4. Email Julia Gillard
(The Campaign/Actions)

...ister, Julia Gillard and tell her that you think that  Fairfax management is attempting to silence its journalists by pursuing an old-hat, anti-union agenda. Fairfax is one of the few big...

5. Executive Salaries: A study
(The Campaign/Editorial)

The cost of maintaining the real wages of the top quarter of their journalists, who are currently not being offered any pay rise, is currently less than half what Fairfax CEO David Kirk pays himself (

6. Fair Go, Fairfax: Don't discount journalism
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...ty is, in essence, throwing away your past and your future at the same time. For the past few years, Fairfax journalists have been locked in a battle with their management, which goes beyond a mere ...

7. Fairfax journos quiz Kirk's pay rise
(The Campaign/Editorial)

Fairfax Media journalists took the fight for quality journalism up to CEO David Kirk yesterday, asking why he was rewarding himself with a 23.8% pay rise to $3.41 million - the equivalent of 10 prime

8. Fairfax cuts spell decline of excellence
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...nt from Fairfax Media, of plans to cut 550 staff - about 5 per cent of the workforce - including more than 120 journalists from the group's most prestigious mastheads, The Sydney Morning Herald and Me...

9. The Thin Black Line
(The Campaign/Letters of Support)

Saturday 30th August is the ninth anniversary of the independence ballot in East Timor. Fairfax journalists were at the forefront of covering the events of those turbulent, dangerous and unforgettable

10. Richard Glover interviews Alan Oakley
(The Campaign/In The News)

...Carlton refused to write his regular column for the paper's Saturday edition, because of the current strike by journalists and editorial staff. He was told that he would no longer be writing for the...

11. Australian staffers express their support
(The Campaign/Letters of Support)

...t The Australian offices in Sydney deeply regrets the management action at Fairfax Media that has left so many journalists in distress. Media Alliance members at The Australian deplore the growing w...

12. NZ EPMU: Letter of Support
(The Campaign/Letters of Support)

...ully Alliance members into accepting its contract terms as the price of getting back inside their newsrooms. Journalists around the world are watching Fairfax and Alliance members in this showdown. ...

13. Holding Fire On Picket Lines At Printers
(The Campaign/Actions)

...o start work today. In other news, The Walkley Foundation has extended the deadline for entries for Fairfax journalists who are taking industrial action. Entries from these members will be accepted...

14. Enterprise Agreement Breakthrough
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...am.For all other offices please gather outside at 9.15 to return as a collective at 9.30am, Newcastle Herald journalists will return from 8am, with staff meeting to walk in together. A group will m...

15. More golden handcuffs?
(The Campaign/Editorial)

... (just shy of the pay of two Australian prime ministers) would buy the equivalent of at least six top quality journalists - but instead Fairfax made 550 people redundant, including 15% of the editori...

16. ABC PM: Fairfax standing ground over journalist strike
(The Campaign/In The News)

Journalists at the Fairfax Group face an uncertain future after the company maintained it would use strike-breakers to publish its newspapers, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and the Australian Fin

17. We're right behind you say Murdoch journos
(The Campaign/Letters of Support)

The Alliance house committee at the Herald and Weekly Times endorses and supports the actions of journalists at Fairfax who are fighting to retain adequate staffing and conditions at their mastheads.

18. British Journalists: Be Strong. Be Proud. Be Victorious
(The Campaign/Letters of Support)

On behalf of 39,000 members of the National Union of Journalists in the UK and Ireland we send you solidarity and support for your fight to defend the editorial integrity and quality of your papers.

19. SMH owner Fairfax Media to cut 550 jobs
(The Campaign/In The News)

...unced that it will axe 550 jobs as part of a cost-cutting programme to reduce its workforce by 5%. Shocked journalists held a stop-work meeting after management told staff via email of the cuts, ...

20. Fairfax pushed to reinstate Mike Carlton
(The Campaign/In The News)

...e columnist Mike Carlton, as the nation's workplace investigator queries his abrupt sacking during a strike by journalists last week. The Workplace Ombudsman has summoned Fairfax executives to a meeti...

21. Welcome back to work!
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...in high quality journalism at Fairfax Media in order to forge a strong future for the company and its talented journalists. Your house committees and union officials are working hard on both t...

22. Fairfax directors’ $22 million dividend
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...2 million? They could save about 283 jobs of the 550 to be culled. They could employ about 340 mid-level journalists (i.e. more than double the number of editorial staff they are now making redu...

23. Secrecy surrounded establishment of Fairfax 'sub hub'
(The Campaign/In The News)

...dney and Melbourne newspapers, days after the move was announced as part of a redundancy program for 165 local journalists. Read full story. ...

24. Sydney Rally AM Friday
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...ry, Christopher Warren, federal president, Patricia Amphlett and Media section president, Ruth Pollard address journalists at the company's Sydney offices.Click on read more to view. ...

25. Citizen McCarthy swings Fairfax axe
(The Campaign/In The News)

... to save $50 million a year. Almost a third of these staff losses, or 165 jobs, were to come from the ranks of journalists. Read more ...

26. Australian Nursing Federation
(The Campaign/Letters of Support)

...s our solidarity and support to the Media Alliance in the current Fair Go Fairfax campaign as you lead working journalists and editorial staff in fighting for their rights.We condemn the WorkChoices-s...

27. SMH editor sacked
(The Campaign/In The News)

JOURNALISTS at The Sydney Morning Herald are wondering who is going to be next after their editor-in-chief Alan Oakley was sacked today. Three years after he was appointed to run the Sydney broadsh

28. Kirk finally talks to staff
(The Campaign/Editorial)

... 3. When is the company going to reinstate Mike Carlton? 4. Why did David Kirk refuse to take questions from journalists at a conference call after announcing his "head count reduction'' in Aug...

29. Fairfax journos return, bosses drop threats
(The Campaign/In The News)

THE Fairfax Media group has abandoned threats to lock out journalists and take legal action against them over a three-day strike, after a breakthrough in negotiations with the union over wages late ye

30. Planned Action Today
(The Campaign/Actions)

...ilding Spencer St. Come and show solidarity and meet your favourite writers. Wollongong - Illawarra Mercury journalists will rally outside the newspaper building at 9.00am on Sunday following the s...