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A plan for settlement
Settlement of the staffing dispute will require a statewide staffing system including genuine service transfers.
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The Premier must act
Potential terms of settlement for the staffing dispute have been made abundantly clear.
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Industrial action on staffing to continue
Federation members around the state have followed up the strongly supported statewide strikes on April 8 and May 22 with locally-organised stopwork protest action in the staffing campaign.
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Action to defend professional standards in TAFE
City and Broken Hill TAFE teachers have stopped work over the downgrading of teacher education qualifications.
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Keen interest in salaries and inflation movements
Federation is keeping a watchful eye on pay settlements in other professions.
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Education Online  

May 2006

The President Writes
Ninety per cent want public schools funded
The results of a recent poll commissioned by the Australian Education Union showed that when asked where new money for schools should be directed, 90 per cent of the people surveyed said it should go mainly to public schools.
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State Government
Tebbutt fails students and teachers
Education Minister Carmel Tebbutt has introduced unsound and dangerous education policies while Minister, writes MAREE O’HALLORAN.
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Industrial relations
Rallies on June 28 next phase in rights campaign
Unions NSW has outlined a four-step program of escalating action over the next 11 months to defeat the WorkChoices legislation.
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Professional issues
Student reports campaign continues
Teachers should rest assured that Federation’s campaign about student reports and the professional judgement of teachers and school communities is intensifying.
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Public education
Poll supports more federal funding
A national poll has found people wanted any Federal Budget surplus to be spent on education before tax cuts.
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Salaries
High Court favours NSW Government on pay scales
The High Court of Australia has held that different pay scales for permanent and casual NSW teachers does not contravene s24(1)(b) of the Anti-Discrimination Act.
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Federation
New GS looks to securing union’s future
New Federation General Secretary John Irving is keen to initiate strategies to increase activism to secure the union’s future.
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Working conditions
New bill weakens OH&S responsibility for bosses
Proposed changes to the State Government’s Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) would diminish workers’ rights and the responsibilities of bosses.
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Salaries
New school counsellor structure proposed
Federation’s School Counsellor Reference Group has considered responses from school counsellors for a new salary structure.
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Federal Government
Sedition laws may impact on educational practice
Critical features of educational practice are under threat courtesy of the new sedition laws, Monash University Professor Jenny Hocking told Federation Council on May 6.
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Event
Politicians to address Small Schools Conference
Education Minister Carmel Tebbutt, Coalition education spokesperson Brad Hazzard and Greens leader Lee Rhiannon will address the Small Schools Conference on June 17.
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Public education
Love and laughter remembered
Back to School Day brought Australian personality Deborah Hutton back to Fort Street High School on May 16.
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Event
Yen talks
Former Education columnist ROBERT YEN will address the Chinese Heritage Association of Australia on May 28.
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Curriculum
Views sought on stage 6 maths syllabuses
This year the Board of Studies is conducting a review of the stage 6 mathematics syllabuses.
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Curriculum
Board pilots VET for years 9 and 10
The Board of Studies is conducting a pilot of vocational education and training (VET) in Stage 5.
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Federation
New auditorium officially opened
Federation’s 402-seat auditorium at 39-41 Reservoir Street, Surry Hills was officially opened following Council on Saturday May 6.
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