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Alan Oliver has not got long to go.  The seafarers' scribe and long time union activist has terminal cancer.

Voices from the Ships, Australian seafarers and their union, launched at national council in April has been shortlisted for the 2009 Frank Broeze Maritime

The 2009 MUA NT Branch Picnic day was held at the Jingili Water Gardens. It was the best turnout for a picnic in a number of years and the families that attended enjoyed a day to remember.

Port Botany wharfies in August featured in the Sydney Morning Herald for their initiative of sacrificing hours for their casual comrades. ( 

After eight months held as hostages, 11 Indonesian seafarers are returning home.  But concern is spreading in the industry that ransom negotiations are

Two of the Burmese crew on board the Liberian ship of shame abandoned when their ship was arrested in Auckland this week have not been paid for a year, one is presumed dead after going missing in h

Two crew members have reportedly been injured after their Turkish bulk carrier was fired upon off Nigeria, Fairplay shipping magazine reports

Pacific maritime jobs poised to benefit from Australian shipping reforms    

FAIR WORK LAWS TO COVER FOREIGN SHIPPING ON OUR COAST : It is the greatest victory for the Maritime Union since 1998. And the longest fought.

The Maritime Union of Australia today urged the Federal Government to urgently adopt reforms to revitalise Australian shipping in circumstances where there are real and ongoing threats of further l