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. Campaign Contacts
(The Campaign/About Us)

Campaign Claire O'Rourke Industrial Organiser, Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance Em: claire.orourke@alliance.org.au Ph: 02 9333 0935 Mb: 0412 984 925 Media Inquiries Mike Do

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

We, the undersigned, believe the sacking of Mike Carlton is an unjustified and provocative act by Fairfax management. It has long been accepted practice that when staff journalists are on strike, c

5. Email Julia Gillard
(The Campaign/Actions)

Write to the Federal Industrial Relations Minister, Julia Gillard and tell her that you think that  Fairfax management is attempting to silence its journalists by pursuing an old-hat, anti-uni

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

...r of their journalists, who are currently not being offered any pay rise, is currently less than half what Fairfax CEO David Kirk pays himself (and less than what the chief financial officer, Sankar N...

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

...uality 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 m...

8. New CEO's message to staff
(The Campaign/Editorial)

Good Afternoon. Yesterday, I was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Fairfax Media Limited.  It is an honour to lead such an outstanding media company, and I shall work tirelessly to make

9. 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

10. Redundancies: Full Picture Revealed
(The Campaign/In The News)

Fairfax management announced today it had increased the minimum number of staff to be made redundant by 50 per cent and admitted that it is targeting all staff, including subeditors, reporters, design

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

...certainty surrounding the future of quality journalism. Day was lamenting the latest announcement from Fairfax Media, of plans to cut 550 staff - about 5 per cent of the workforce - including more...

12. 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

13. Who is Brian McCarthy?
(The Campaign/Editorial)

"Brian McCarthy detests publicity... Perched on a smallish table in front of an 1879 portrait of David Syme in the Spencer Street building that houses (The Age), McCarthy adjusted his tie as if

14. ACTU: Fairfax job cuts go too far
(The Campaign/Letters of Support)

 This week’s announcement of plans to cut 550 jobs at Fairfax Media is another worrying case of a short-sighted push for profits by bonus-driven executives at the expense of people’s livelihoods

15. Media Alliance alert: Company threat to staff
(The Campaign/Editorial)

Dear Fairfax member, Members of your union’s negotiating team met with Fairfax management earlier today, following a request from the company. Ruth Pollard, Gerard Noonan, Chris Warren

16. Pagemasters grabs UK Telegraph pages
(The Campaign/In The News)

... to be processed in suburban Sydney. The move comes after Telegraph executives visited the headquarters of Fairfax Media, publisher of the Herald, last year. Fairfax has outsourced some of its sectio...

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

The Alliance chapter at 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

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

I'm lead delegate at the Taranaki Daily News in Fairfax's New Zealand stable. I learned of the job cuts on the midday news and had them confirmed by reading an AAP story on Fairfax's own NZ Stuff webs

19. Sunday Age clings to "hope"
(The Campaign/In The News)

Fairfax Media plans to cut up to 14% of the editorial staff from its metro daily newspapers. One of the affected papers, The Sunday Age, notes that sub-editors' jobs are among some of those to be lost

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

National Fairfax house committee met today on tactics and has decided to hold fire on picket lines at Chullora and Tullamarine for the moment. Protest gatherings are being held at One Darling Island i

21. Enterprise Agreement Breakthrough
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...in together. A group will meet in the King Street entrance for the 9am starters. Meanwhile the “Fair Go, Fairfax – Don’t discount journalism” campaign continues. ...

22. Fairfax Members Vote To Strike
(The Campaign/Actions)

Media Alliance members working on Fairfax publications in Sydney, Melbourne, the Illawarra and Newcastle have voted overwhelmingly to stop work immediately until Monday. The strike will affect the

23. Fairfax newspaper production to be outsourced
(The Campaign/In The News)

FAIRFAX Media will outsource much of its editorial production function for its flagship Sydney and Melbourne newspapers to an offshoot of news agency Australian Associated Press, as part of a radical

24. Fairfax flack Bruce Wolpe turns up in Denver
(The Campaign/In The News)

As Fairfax Media faced its biggest crisis since the disastrous takeover of the company by Warwick Fairfax two decades ago, its corporate affairs chief Bruce Wolpe was thousands of kilometres away in D

25. Kirk's diktat versus a bottom-up process
(The Campaign/Editorial)

In his speech to the Sydney Institute tonight, Fairfax Media's $3.4 million CEO David Kirk underlines why he does not understand that quality journalism at Fairfax Media is threatened. "The publi

26. Media mayhem likely
(The Campaign/In The News)

... highest level of intangibles compared with total assets among all local media companies at 90 per cent. Fairfax, with $3.9 billion in masthead and licence values and another $2.8 billion in goodwil...

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

According to the Fairfax Media remuneration report, when David Kirk was appointed CEO in 2005 (just after the board had paid a $4.5 million bonus to see his predecessor Fred Hilmer out the door), bo

28. 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

29. Kirk insults staff
(The Campaign/Editorial)

Fairfax Media CEO David Kirk, like his fellow McKinsey consultancy predecessor Fred Hilmer, walked into the job with no experience in the media industry. But then, virtually no one on the Fairfax boar

30. Caucus told Fairfax redundancies threaten democracy
(The Campaign/Editorial)

PROPOSED retrenchments at Fairfax are putting in danger the quality of The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, a Federal Government parliamentary secretary, John Murphy, says. Mr Murphy, who has a lon