There was good cheer all round at QUT at Christmas, where management and National Tertiary Education Union agreed on enterprise bargaining terms. It was a very QUT process with both sides knowing when to push and for what. The deal is in-line with most agreements in the existing round and includes, 17 per cent superannuation for fixed term staff, a target for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff numbers and a workload review.

CMM hears an enterprise agreement is also close at the University of South Australia, another university where the prefer jaw-jaw to war-war in industrial negotiations.