Here’s to centenary of activism
13 June 2019
Section: News
Councillors, Life Members and guests of the TAFE Teachers Association came together to celebrate 100 years of activism at the TAFE Teachers Association Centenary Anniversary AGM and dinner on 31 May.
Union asserts support for journalists and media freedom, following police raids
12 June 2019
Section: News
Federation has expressed its solidarity with journalists and other media workers following recent raids on journalists and media organisations by the Australian Federal Police.
Foster’s high-profile support for public education
12 June 2019
Section: News
He made his name representing Australia on the football field, and now former Socceroos player Craig Foster is kicking goals for teachers and students as a champion of public education.
A matter of pride
12 June 2019
Section: News
June is Pride Month, an international celebration of the LGBTIQA+ community. Originally beginning in remembrance of the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York – a tipping point in the gay liberation movement in the US
Early career teachers in regions put in the picture
11 June 2019
Section: News
Are you a beginning teacher living in regional NSW?
Member of Federation family receives national honour
11 June 2019
Section: News
Federation congratulates Life Member Sharan Burrow, this week honoured as a Companion of the Order of Australia.
Pre-2016 Teacher Pay Inequity
11 June 2019
Section: News
The New South Wales Teachers Federation is actively addressing and prioritising the resolution of the pay disparity that has occurred as a result of the transition to Standards-Based Remuneration (SBR).
NSW Premier’s announcement of a new selective high school is an attack on comprehensive public schooling
4 June 2019
Section: News
The NSW Teachers Federation has condemned the Premier’s decision to establish a new selective high school in southwest Sydney.
New state and federal ministers for women
3 June 2019
Section: News
After the March 2019 NSW election, the Premier announced that the NSW Minister for Women would be Bronwyn Taylor MLC (NSW Nationals).
Meeting sought over significant underpayment issues
31 May 2019
Section: News
The Department has agreed to meet with Federation over significant issues relating to the underpayment of a “large numbers of teachers”, after the union has been inundated with complaints.
Stolen Generations kit increases knowledge and understanding
29 May 2019
Section: News
Students at Trangie Central School have started a valuable conversation — to understand the truth and progress the collective healing journey of the Stolen Generations, and acknowledge and correct the past.
Thousands of students to resit NAPLAN over online glitches
23 May 2019
Section: News
This year’s botched round of NAPLAN testing proved the examination “really is a dud”, Federation President Maurie Mulheron has declared.
Off to Harvard: Public School principals win awards
20 May 2019
Section: News
Congratulations to three public school principal’s granted scholarships at the Public Education Foundation’s Proudly Public Awards ceremony on 15 May held at Sydney Town Hall.
IDAHOBIT Day provides an opportunity to promote justice and protection for all
16 May 2019
Section: News
International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT Day) is an internationally recognised day of significance that aims to draw attention to the violence and discrimination experienced by LGBTIQ people.
Recent actions reveal federal party positions on issues affecting women
15 May 2019
Section: News
Where the federal political parties stand on women’s issues has become apparent as the federal election approaches.
Film about Federation’s advocacy nominated for international award
14 May 2019
Section: News
From an idea hatched by two lifelong comrades at a Federation Friday Night Forum in 2015, naa muru gurung (to see a path for children) has blazed a trail all the way to the glittering Nice International Film Festival.
Public schools need $14 billion cut restored to close resource gap
13 May 2019
Section: News
When independent and Catholic schools are receiving more funding than public schools you know how unfair the system has become, Federation President Maurie Mulheron said today.
Billboards drive the message home for voters
7 May 2019
Section: News
Mobile billboards are cruising through several electorates in the lead-up to the federal election, to highlight to voters what is at stake for the nation’s children at the May 18 poll.
Today’s kids can’t wait any longer for schools funding cuts to be restored
6 May 2019
Section: News
“Every year in a child’s education counts — you can’t say we can wait another three years to do something for these kids; you can’t say that,” federal Labor’s shadow education minister Tanya Plibersek said in an address to Federation’s May Council meeting.
Significant lump sum hits bank accounts of rural and remote teachers
6 May 2019
Section: News
During the holidays members of rural and remote schools received their first payments under the new Rural and Remote Incentive packages, negotiated by the union.
Unions rally on May Day ahead of Sunday’s Family Fun Day
1 May 2019
Section: News
To chants of “union, power”, more than 20,000 union members gathered at Sydney’s Belmore Park, near Central station, to march to Hyde Park marking May Day for International Workers Day.