1. 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,

2. 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

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. 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...

6. 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

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. 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...

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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.

16. 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

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

On Tuesday, using the Orwellian title "Business Improvement Program," Fairfax chief executive David Kirk and deputy Brian McCarthy said they would cut 550 jobs to save $50 million a year.

18. 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. ...

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

...oing consultation regarding the redundancies and the impact they stand to have on staff and the quality of Fairfax newspapers, websites and magazines. We believe it is vital for the company and the...

20. Just the facts
(The Campaign/Editorial)

Fairfax has launched its own web site to respond to Fair Go Fairfax. Go and read their announcements at http://fairfaxjustthefacts.com.au/justthefacts/ We’ve suggested they link here from their

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

...lliance 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. All...

22. 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

23. Our Facebook group hits 2000 members
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...recruited more than 2000 members - it's been a staggering response. Your support for quality journalism at Fairfax Media has been tremendous. But this campaign is far from over.  We need to spre...

24. Crikey: Secret Fairfax share scheme key to slash and burn
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...n extraordinarily generous scheme to reward senior staff based on company performance has been exposed at Fairfax and sheds new light on the recent frenzy of cost cutting at the company. While Fair...

25. 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

26. Staff continue the battle
(The Campaign/Editorial)

Meetings of Fairfax staff yesterday involved people from all parts of the business - editorial, advertising, online and administration - who came together to protest against the staff cuts announced e

27. 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

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. Media Report: The axe falls at Fairfax
(The Campaign/In The News)

Five hundred and fifty staff at Fairfax are to go in a major restructure. Management said they were largely immune from the global newspaper downturn, but has the reality of falling circulation and ad

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

Next month, the directors of Fairfax Media will be receiving final dividend cheques worth more than $22 million thanks to their shareholdings in the company. Those cheques are in addition to the $4