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Every child has a right to access a quality education, and our public schools have a long-standing and proven commitment of inclusion for all.

Alarming new international data highlights the scale of Australia’s teacher shortage crisis and the urgent need for federal and state governments to address the root causes of workforce decline.

At the Albanese Government's Tertiary Productivity Roundtable today, the AEU will highlight the critical role of fully funded high-quality public education in driving national productivity and long-term economic growth.

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

The 2025 State of our Schools survey identified workload, a lack of respect for teachers and burnout as the key reasons why 84 per cent of respondents had considered quitting the profession in the past four years.

The SSTUWA notes that many of the findings of the review reinforce the conclusions and recommendations of the Facing the Facts review into public education presented in 2023 by Dr Carmen Lawrence and her team.

The AEU’s pre-election campaign was launched with a spectacular drone show above Sydney’s skyline, urging the Albanese Government to fully fund public schools, as promised.

This World Teachers’ Day, Friday 25 October, teachers in Western Australia need more than thanks, they need full funding.

New analysis from Jim Stanford, Economist and Director, Centre for Future Work at the Australia Institute, has highlighted the large economic, social, and fiscal benefits from funding public schools to 100% of the Schooling Resource Standard.

The Australian Education Union has placed an immediate ban on the implementation of the Better and Fairer Schools Agreement.

If you are intending to resign from your current position, it is important to know the minimum requirement for preserving your accruing long service leave.

The State School Teachers’ Union of Western Australia said the education of students at WA public schools would be affected unless the Federal Government agreed to lift its funding at a meeting of education ministers in Sydney today.

An independent expert education panel has made clear to governments the full funding of public schools is “urgent and critical” and a precondition for improving results, equity and student wellbeing.

PISA results show the need for full funding to combat shortages and achievement gaps

The Australian Education Union says the interim report of the Senate Inquiry into increasing disruption in Australian school classrooms has failed to capture and address the complex issues that impact on teaching and learning in schools.

Every child has the right to a high quality education, delivered by qualified and professional teachers in their local neighbourhood. It is Australia’s public education system and its dedicated workforce that upholds this right.

The State School Teachers’ Union of Western Australia has welcomed the announcement of a new Education Minister in today’s cabinet reshuffle, with the division into separate ministerial portfolios of early childhood education and training suggesting the state government is giving education a higher priority.

he State School Teachers’ Union of Western Australia has rejected the state government’s desperate plans to fix the state’s teacher shortage, saying they will not address the underlying issues in the public education system.

President of the Cambodian hospitality union (LRSU) representing workers at the Naga World Casino Hotel was arrested in Phnom Penh airport and jailed on 26 November while returning from International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) World Congress in Melbourne.

We are at the end of yet another year which brought far more turmoil than we could have ever expected. We thought that we’d seen the worst of COVID-19 in 2020 and 2021 and that we were pretty well prepared - vaccinations mostly done – for the beginning of the year.