QUT staff got a 1.5 per cent pay rise in December, a downpayment on whatever is adopted in the new enterprise agreement – or rather the agreement which should be middle aged, what the one it will replace expiring last March. Since then, the campus branch of the National Tertiary Education Union tells members, “management has been frustratingly tight-lipped about detail of how they think the new agreement should look and have given no indication of what wage increase they plan to offer.” The comrades hope the arrival of new VC Margaret Sheil will speed things up.