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Australian Unions have welcomed figures showing that jobs and wages are continuing to rise, with a strong lift in both employment and pay for women.

Across six countries in Africa, education union programmes against child labour are delivering life-changing results.

Recently, The Sydney Morning Herald reported one of Sydney’s top public high schools had more than 2,000 students for the first time, thanks to the booming population in the area.

At the Albanese Government’s Tertiary Productivity Roundtable last month, the AEU highlighted the critical role of fully funded high-quality public education in driving national productivity and long-term economic growth.

Australian schools are seeing a growing number of incidents in which students have created deepfake sexualised imagery of their classmates. The eSafety Commissioner has urged schools to monitor the situation.

WA has taken out the AEU national TAFE photography competition for the second year running.

As a new educator member, it is important that you know your union is here to support you with advice, protection and advocacy.

The Productivity Commission has recommended the wrong solution with its suggestion in a newly released report that off-the-shelf lesson plans should be developed for teachers to help them save time and teach outside their area of expertise, according to the Australian Education Union.

The Western Australian TAFE Lecturers’ General Agreement 2023 states that “lecturing hours may be averaged over periods of up to 21 calendar weeks in a semester.”

The School Education Act (1999) Review, announced by then Education Minister Tony Buti in 2023 sparked both hope and concern.

Jobs and Skills Australia recently released several papers as part of its Gender Economic Equality Study.

With the commencement of trials for complex behaviour support coordinators and small group tuition, SSTUWA members have now secured implementation of 37 items of the 2023 General Agreement.

The announcement by the state government of a trial of full-service schools delivers yet another win from the process the State School Teachers’ Union of Western Australia began with Facing the Facts.

When the team led by Dr Carmen Lawrence developed Facing the Facts, the findings on developmental readiness for school were sobering.

Teachers are spending far too much time on data collection and compliance paperwork while being starved of time for activities that directly benefit students, according to a report by the NSW Teachers Federation.

The Australian Education Union has welcomed the commencement of the Commonwealth Prac Payment, a much-needed investment in the future of Australia’s teaching workforce.

The AEU Federal Executive has unanimously adopted an official statement on peace education.

Days before Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called the [2025] federal election, the Labor government settled a long-running argument with the states over school funding.

Kangaroo skins and chalk artwork were some of the activities students at Palmyra Primary School carried out to recognise National Sorry Day in May.

Held in Auckland by the Post Primary Teachers’ Association of New Zealand, the 2025 Network of Establishing Teachers Conference brought together more than 90 delegates from across New Zealand and Australia, including representatives from the SSTUWA, AEU Victoria, AEU ACT and the Queensland Teachers’ Union.