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The Australian Education Union congratulates the Albanese Government on its re- election and renewed mandate to support a fair and inclusive education system.

The Coalition’s costings have revealed plans for cuts to the Commonwealth Prac Payment, Initial Teacher Education, and student debt relief, moves that will negatively impact teaching students and teaching graduates at a time when we have a national teacher shortage.

After promising to match Labor’s education funding, the newly released Coalition costings have revealed they will rip $431 million out of Free TAFE if elected.

As voting ramps up for the 2025 Federal Election, Leader of the Opposition Peter Dutton has made clear that he wants to tell teachers how to teach and what to teach and that funding will be withheld unless they comply but is hiding their plans for the Australian Curriculum.

The Australian Education Union has condemned Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and Shadow Education Minister Sarah Henderson plans to abolish Free TAFE, a program that has provided vocational education opportunities to hundreds of thousands of Australians.

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.

In a recent radio interview with 4BC, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said students should learn about the atrocities suffered by Indigenous people in Australia. Historical events such as massacres should be part of the Australian history curriculum. Mr Albanese added it was something that should be done without feelings of shame from non-Indigenous teachers.

The state government’s desperate plans to fix the state’s teacher shortage will not address the underlying issues in the public education system, according to the SSTUWA. The union said the government’s plan to send under qualified teachers into short- staffed schools (announced late last year) was a short-sighted move which had the potential to cause more harm than good.

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.