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Facta Non Verba

August 09, 2022

Indulge me for a moment as I meander down memory lane. My life-long commitment to social justice and the transformative power of public education was forged in the classrooms of Punchbowl Boys High School where a bunch of inspiring teachers taught me many decades ago.

When you fail teachers, you fail children

June 22, 2022

We are in serious danger of burning out a generation of teachers, lost through overwork and disenchantment with the way their focus is constantly taken from their students to a mind-numbing amount of administration and compliance work. They also see a government in denial, unwilling to stand up for the profession or address the root causes of the shortages: the uncompetitive salaries and crippling workloads that are turning people away from teaching.

To say this has been a challenging term would be an incredible understatement

March 07, 2022

Our greatest remedy remains the support we find in our collective, looking after one another in the face of a government that is totally out of touch with our schools and TAFE colleges

The collective spirit of our union will see us through the challenges of 2022

January 28, 2022

I would like to start by extending a warm welcome to all teachers who are beginning their careers. Like our colleagues who started in 2020 and 2021, you are commencing your career in a period of great uncertainty and upheaval.