Your workplace contacts
15 September 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
Richard Meyers has been the Fed Rep at Wetherill Park TAFE, in Sydney’s west, for about 15 years and has found that patience and persistence are key to success in the role.
Retired Teachers Association news
12 September 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
Why join the Retired Teachers Association?, Challenges to the ABC, CRUMA report, AFTINet report, Opera House outrage, Upcoming events
Your Say: Power of educating the parent
26 August 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
As Professor Ken Robinson, educational guru and activist, rightly pointed out at the recent Education Expo, the education industry is ripe for disruption. So how do we do that?
Book Reviews
22 August 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
This edition of book reviews includes Julián is a Mermaid, The Poesy Ring, Here I Stand: Stories that Speak for Freedom and Populism Now! The Case for Progressive Populism
Your say: You are the union
22 August 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
If it wasn’t for Federation, our work would be even more difficult than what we face today. We need to honour the work of the dedicated unionists who’ve gone before us.
Your say: Half-baked ideas endanger us all
21 August 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
The article in The Australian, “TAFE’s shortcut courses get a rise from bakers”, on 18 July 2018, stated that TAFE is offering a shortened version of Certificate III in Retail Baking that allows a student to earn the same qualification in 18 weeks as someone who has completed a four-year apprenticeship. What a half-baked idea.
Association Spotlight: Barrier
17 August 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
The Barrier Teachers Association serves Broken Hill, Menindee and Wilcannia and boasts a 95 per cent membership rate. Many of our new teachers originate from the NSW east coast and they find the TA’s social network supportive and welcoming.
Your workplace contacts
16 August 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
Encouraging members to understand their working rights and empowering them to speak up is an essential role of being a school Fed Rep, according to Diane Dass from Kellyville High School in Sydney’s north-west.
Retired Teacher Association news
16 August 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
In June, Janine Kitson presented important information regarding the conservation of Gardens of Stone National Park near Lithgow, NSW.
Your workplace contacts
14 June 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
For the first year in some time, James Cook High has a Workplace Committee and it’s an achievement the school’s Federation Representative Thomas O’Connor is most proud of.
Association Spotlight: Inner City
13 June 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
This edition of Association Spotlight focuses on the Inner City Teachers Association.
Book Reviews
12 June 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
This edition of book reviews contains Leaf by Sandra Dieckmann, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy by Yanis Varoufakis and No Shortcuts, Organising for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane F. McAlevey
From “Beach to Bush”
12 June 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
A “beach to bush” change has proved a challenging but rewarding year for newly appointed principal at Pilliga Public School Seonid Stewart.
Retired Teachers Association news
4 June 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
At the May meeting, the RTA condemned the Turnbull Government’s budget. The ABC now faces an $84 million cut to its funding over the next three years and it seems that analysis of federal policies and expenditure on the broadcaster’s side is met with a large financial stick.
News from the Retired Teachers Association
18 May 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
The Combined Retired Union Members Association is seeking clarification from Unions NSW about the State Government’s decision to penalise union officials and unions for engaging in industrial action.
Your say: From little things, a union will grow
16 May 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
This year I made the move to Timor-Leste to work in one of the several remote districts. My school has about 600 students from kindergarten to year 12 and I teach the national English curriculum. English, along with Tetun, Portuguese, and Bahasa Indonesian are mandatory subjects in high school. Portuguese and Tetun are taught from primary school.
Association Spotlight: Camden-Campbelltown
15 May 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
Our Association is home to the Tharawal people, bordered by the Gandangara to the south and Muringong to the north of the Nepean River.
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k – Review
15 May 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
Mark Manson has probably confused people, some may have even walked away from this book, by the use of his F-Bomb in the title.
RBG Documentary Review
15 May 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
RBG outlines the history US Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Born to Russian Jewish immigrant parents in Brooklyn, New York, Bader Ginsburg faced enormous sexism studying law at Cornell, Harvard and Columbia and later trying to gain employment in the law.
Book Reviews
11 May 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
This edition of book reviews includes The Tree by Neal Layton, The Pobblebonk Earth Detective Club, Going Wild by Sue Baker and The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben.
Your say: Let’s not forget our shared history
4 April 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
Bruce Pascoe’s remarkable 2014 account of how Aboriginal Australia, upon first contact, had a sedentary agricultural economy, even in what is now referred to as the “dead centre” of the country, is a lesson in how non-Aboriginal Australians have forgotten our shared history.