They are the first of around 3,000 residents set to be turfed out of the long-established Waterloo Housing Estate, to make way for lucrative privately owned construction.
An illegitimate and antidemocratic process was organised to suppress any discussion and scrutiny of the terms of the union-government agreement.
The cuts will accelerate the decline in enrolments, which began in the 1980s as the result of the deliberate weakening of public education by Labor and Liberal-National Coalition governments.
The senate inquiry and report was marked by a glaring contradiction between its detailed documentation of the devastating impacts on families and communities, and the paucity of the recommendations.
While school avoidance occurs across all socio-economic groups, the public system is the least able to meet the needs of its students.
Rejecting strike action, the union bureaucracy has announced a so-called “day of action” while the government imposes significant real wage cuts.
Just as thousands of public sector nurses and rail workers took action, the NSWTF gave Premier Dominic Perrottet’s Liberal-National Coalition state government a virtual no-strike pledge for Term 3.
The union bureaucrats want the state Liberal government to come to the “negotiating table” in order to devise yet another sellout industrial agreement.
In the final week of the school term, 20 percent of school-aged children in NSW were absent from their classroom due to a COVID-19 infection or exposure.
Child care workers are among those confronting the highest risk of infection in their workplace.
The stoppage reflects widespread anger over soaring workloads, stagnant wages and the dangerous reopening of the schools, all of which have been enforced by the unions.
At least twenty schools were forced to close in the first two days of mass school attendance in Sydney, as the Delta variant of COVID continues to circulate widely.
The government has temporarily shifted to online learning over fears of triggering further opposition among teachers and school staff.
The plans for a new “super school” in the regional town take a broader amalgamation drive to a new level, by merging both primary and secondary schools onto a single campus.
From its introduction in 2008 by the Rudd Labor government, teachers have opposed the narrow literacy and numeracy testing regime.
The inquiry was commissioned by the New South Wales Teachers Federation, which has facilitated the endless attacks on teachers’ jobs, pay and conditions.
The new blueprint features a further narrowing of the school curriculum, and the imposition of mandatory teaching methods, learning materials, classroom content and practice.
The data exposes the fraud of the Gonski funding model, commissioned by the last federal Labor government, ostensibly to overcome the socioeconomic divide.
The danger of sending up to a million children back full-time in New South Wales during the COVID-19 pandemic is compounded by the public transport crisis.
The Australian government is pressing for schools across the country to reopen, as part of a wider move to lift social distancing and other restrictions put in place for the coronavirus pandemic.
