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The North West Business Management Working Group, with members from health and social care agencies, has been responsible for providing data that improves knowledge of the market and supports strategies and initiatives to match need to provision. This paper describes three projects making successful use of its services.

The purpose of this paper is to document key elements of union strategy at Sydney (Lidcombe) branch of Australia's Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) in an attempt to document and critique its branch level strategy in the year immediately after the removal of the Howard‐Costello Government.

A case study approach is used in analysing data obtained from internal CFMEU documents and correspondence; interviews with the New South Wales State Secretary of the CFMEU Andrew Ferguson, union organisers, one former organiser who worked for a number of years at Western Sydney but is now with a white‐collar union in the education sector, and construction workers; CFMEU official publications; news media stories and a series of building site visits. The authors use a theory framework of Roman Catholic social teaching to frame the discussions and analyze the case study findings.

In focus groups with construction workers, the authors find one challenging external constraint for the CFMEU: reaching out to and meeting effectively the needs of younger workers especially those from families hostile to unionism. However, younger workers seem to hold a mix of individualistic and collectivist philosophies. The final case shows the CFMEU organiser Tulloch to be adaptable and flexible in the heat of industrial disputation. Finally, the fact that building workers brought the asbestos issue to CFMEU's attention in the final case study shows union willingness to pursue issues not initiated by the union.

The paper documents the fact that the CFMEU has the ability and potential to rebuild its influence on building sites in Sydney and win further favourable outcomes for exploited and vulnerable workers within its sphere of influence. Through the theoretical framework, the authors point that as it does so it will assist in bringing to fruition the Roman Catholic social teaching that presents strong trade unions as a valid form of collective voice for workers and a way for collective and individual labour to retain in practice the dignity that God has already clothed them with.

The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine how clinical team leadership can facilitate a collaborative team and, in doing so, drive change in a health service.

Ethnographic field work was conducted with a clinical team, comprised of 13 health professionals, in community health, in Sydney Australia. Utilising semi‐structured interviews, data were collected and then analysed using Goleman's leadership typology as an analytic lens.

Leadership can facilitate a team to realise high levels of collaboration, trust and respect. This creates an environment in which collective learning and increased responsibility thrives. Together, these elements enable front‐line staff to take ownership of their services, to integrate the organising and delivery of services, and, in doing so, improve health care practice.

The leadership empirically observed here confirms qualities, behaviours and approaches that have been argued as important in the literature.

For health professionals in a clinical team leadership role Goleman's typology can be instructive. Many leaders in complex health care organisations are engaged in, and needing to respond to, unfolding situations to ensure positive improvement. At such times the typology offers a range of leadership styles to draw upon.

The application of the typology to health care clinical team leadership is a new development.

If ever you need to define the precise difference between primary and secondary school aims in Britain and put your explanation in a nut‐shell, this will do as well as anything. Disarming, slightly disdainful, more than a little prompted by the defence mechanisms of teachers without degrees, it runs like this: ‘In the secondary school they teach subjects: in the primary school we teach children’.

Through the energetic initiative of “The Globe” newspaper a Middle Classes Union has been formed for the purpose of organising that great body of people into an Alliance that shall be capable of making its power felt. A preliminary meeting was held recently under the presidency of Major J. R. Pretyman Newman, M.P., of gentlemen interested in the scheme recently outlined in “The Globe” for combining the Middle Classes in a Union for their own protection. All present were unanimous as to the necessity for the formation of such an organisation, and after discussion it was provisionally agreed that its title should be—