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Articles from Australia

  1. Standards and working conditions 12 July 2013

    The great Gonski

    Mar Candela
    The great Gonski
  2. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2 July 2013

    Australia: educators demand quick finalisation of Gonski funding negotiations

    On 28 June, the Australian Education Union (AEU), EI’s largest Australian affiliate, called on all political leaders to act in a spirit of bipartisanship and finalise agreements on the implementation of the Gonski Report on investment in education within the next two weeks.

    Australia: educators demand quick finalisation of Gonski funding negotiations
  3. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 4 April 2013

    Australia: education funding reform in jeopardy

    Public schools in Australia would receive $390 million less in funding in 2014 if the Australian federal and state governments fail to put in place the Gonski school funding reforms by the beginning of next year. This is according to a new budget analysis released by EI’s affiliate, the Australian...

    Australia: education funding reform in jeopardy
  4. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 6 March 2013

    Australia: Union support for school funding reform

    The Australian Education Union (AEU), one of EI’s national affiliates, has welcomed February’s release of the report from the Gonski Review of Funding for Australian Schooling. It explained that this report made 2012 a historic year for school funding reform in the country.

    Australia: Union support for school funding reform
  5. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 4 September 2012

    Australia: Union rebukes Abbot’s attack on public schools

    The Australian Education Union (AEU), one of EI’s national affiliates, has strongly rejected the claims by Opposition leader Tony Abbott that public schools are overfunded in comparison with private schools.

    Australia: Union rebukes Abbot’s attack on public schools
  6. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 24 July 2012

    Australia: national day of action for education funding reform

    Parents, teachers and principals across Australia will be taking part in a national day of action on 24 July to urge politicians to commit to boosting resources for schools and funding reform.

    Australia: national day of action for education funding reform
  7. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 6 July 2012

    Australia: Campaign for new education funding model

    The Australian Education Union (AEU) has launched a campaign, I give a Gonski, to encourage the Government to legislate for a new funding model based on the findings of the Gonski Review of Federal Schools funding.

    Australia: Campaign for new education funding model
  8. Standards and working conditions 27 February 2012

    Australian teachers win public debate on adequate education funding

    “There is an urgent need for the reform of school funding arrangements and an investment of at least an extra 3.8 billion Australian dollars a year in the public schools of Australia”. This is the main conclusion of a Panel to Review the Funding for Schooling established by the Australian...

    Australian teachers win public debate on adequate education funding
  9. Standards and working conditions 6 July 2011

    Australia: Federal government attacks teachers’ rights

    The government of New South Wales in Australia is trying to take away the right of teachers to negotiate pay and conditions. The government has capped wage increases for public service employees at 2.5 per cent and has taken away their rights to bargain for improved pay and conditions.

    Australia: Federal government attacks teachers’ rights
  10. Equity and inclusion 2 September 2010

    Gay adoption victory in Australia

    The parliament in Australia’s most populous state has voted to allow same-sex couples the same rights to adopt as heterosexuals.

    Gay adoption victory in Australia
  11. Fighting the commercialisation of education 15 April 2010

    Trans-Pacific Partnership talks launched in Australia

    Inaugural negotiations for a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) aimed at creating an ambitious regional free trade zone were launched in Melbourne on 15 March.

    Trans-Pacific Partnership talks launched in Australia
  12. Equity and inclusion 5 December 2008

    EI hosts its largest-ever seminar on Indigenous issues

    “Quality education and social justice for Indigenous peoples” is the theme of Education International’s Indigenous educators’ seminar to be held 6 December 2008 in advance of the World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education in Melbourne.

    EI hosts its largest-ever seminar on Indigenous issues
  13. Leading the profession 5 June 2008

    You’re having a laugh

    The toughest audience can’t hold a candle to Year 9 on a wet Friday afternoon. That’s why so many teachers are a hit at this year’s comedy festival.

    You’re having a laugh
  14. Equity and inclusion 5 June 2008

    Australia apologises to Stolen Generations of Aboriginal children

    Australian teachers are wholeheartedly applauding the new federal government’s formal apology to indigenous Aboriginal people for past injustices and human rights violations.

    Australia apologises to Stolen Generations of Aboriginal children
  15. Equity and inclusion 13 February 2008

    EI and Australian teachers welcome official apology to Aborigines

    EI and Australian teachers are wholeheartedly applauding the new federal government’s formal apology to indigenous Aboriginal people for past injustices and human rights violations.

    EI and Australian teachers welcome official apology to Aborigines