The most revealing aspect of the new Review is that it fails to provide any assessment of the role of the current education models in the school education crisis.
Union officials concealed that the EBA contains the adoption of measures proposed in the “Bracks Review,” which escalate the pro-market agenda now underpinning public education.
Endorsement of the agreement opens the way for an acceleration of the destructive pro-market agenda that has created a systemic crisis in public education.
If the agreement is such a “significant gain” then why is there no framework or democratic process where teachers can discuss, debate, and seek clarification on its contents?
On every key issue the teachers’ union and the Victorian Labor government have worked together to entrench and deepen the assault on the public education system.
Teacher union claims of a “great win for our members” are a fraud.
An already under-funded scheme for providing disability services to public school children in the state of Victoria is to be targeted for further cuts.
The two teachers decided to go public, hoping to encourage other teachers to speak out about the escalating education crisis.
Once more, Aboriginal people are being used as guinea pigs for measures designed to dismantle welfare entitlements throughout the working class.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s contemptuous remark sought to justify the wholesale closure of remote indigenous communities.
“I think all the austerity measures are terrible—the rich and poor divide is growing.”
Dr David Stephens explains how the Australian government is using the World War I centenary to promote nationalism and militarism among school children.
A record level of suicides by Aboriginal children and teenagers is a product of decades of poverty and a damning indictment of the profit system.
Australian authorities are distributing patriotic war propaganda among school children as part of the official World War I centenary commemorations.
John Pilger presents a stark picture of Aboriginal disadvantage and oppression but blames racism, not capitalism.
Yesterday’s strike and mass meeting underscored the determination of the union bureaucracy to suppress any opposition to its plans for a deal that will further undermine wages, conditions and public education.
Even though the AEU has dropped its demand for a 30 percent wage rise, the state government is insisting on further major concessions.
Mental health services are in profound crisis, following decades of chronic underfunding by successive governments at state and federal levels.
Labor’s new legislation for the Northern Territory is part of a dramatic escalation of the assault on the social conditions and basic rights of all sections of the working class.
The Labor government has launched a “second stage” of the intervention, which has become a key testing ground for a continuous assault on welfare recipients, indigenous and non-indigenous alike.
