VIC Treasurer’s Plea to Police Amid Industrial Action

Published on September 21, 2024

Victoria’s treasurer has urged police to think about the consequence of their actions as officers beef up industrial action ahead of the Australian Football League (AFL) Grand Final. Tim Pallas accused the police union of taking action against the community as a consequence of their own failure to vote for a previous pay offer. “I would urge police to think a bit sympathetically about the consequence of the actions,” he told reporters on Sep. 20. “The police association knows full well they reached an agreement in principle with the government, they failed to be able to deliver that agreement through a vote of their membership....

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