Education : journal of the N.S.W. Public School Teachers Federation

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Nef 331.8809944 EDU
Created/Published
Sydney : The Federation, 1919-2021
Issue
Vol. 79 No. 04 (6 Apr 1998)
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Contents

Educaiton JOURNAL OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES TEACHERS FEDERATION 1
Supervision dispute unresolved 1 , 2
Commission adjourns case 1
Teachers stop work and rally for AMES 1 , 2
NEWS Protest forces secret signing ceremony 2
Bankstown hot for AMES 2
Officers 2
Executive 2
Supervision of Students An impossible task 3
New legislation puts teachers at risk 3
Debunking the Myths Part 2 3
Rallies held in support of tertiary education 4
Northern Territory branch launches Katherine region flood appeal 4
Federation opposes MAI 4
Advertising 4
Disappointment over School Certificate changes 5
Criticisms and concerns 5
Advertising 5
Casual teachers win FACS leave 6
The use of sick leave entitlements to care for sick dependants 6
Member receives $5000 back pay 6
Advertising 6
Pinocchio OH&S training 6
Big day for women’s anniversary 7
Women’s Conference Public,Proud and Powerful Saturday May 30 7
Advertising 7
HSC syllabus evaluation process begins in a rush 8
Catholic education posts a profit 8
Consulting members 8
League tables now a breach of state legislation 9
Our Fed Reps 9
Advertising 9
In BRIEF 9
The President Writes 10
LETTERS to the Editor When can we all celebrate? 10
Home and away 10
Miss Everson 11
Value for money 11
Carr maintenance 11
Stay put? 11
Made our bed 11
Advertising 11
ADMINISTRATION Casual vacancies on Council 12
Annual Conference delegates from the Aboriginal Members Roll 12
Advertising 12
ACCOUNTS Year end accounts NSW Teachers Federation 13
AUSTRALIAN EDUCATION UNIOS AEU 13
Australian Education Union (NSW Branch) 13
RETIRED Retired Teachers Association Second Friday of each month, 1.30pm. Teachers House, Bathurst Street, Sydney. 14
Legislation to bring seasonal insecurity 14
No planned rate increase for Health Society 14
Advertising 14
FINANCE Choice What does it mean for your superannuation? 15
Provide your tax file number and save 15
Keeping us safe 15
VIEWS Conflict prevention and resolution: more to it than procedure 16
Advertising 16
It’s not that simple 17
Career education redundant or more needed than ever? 17
REVIEWS Up, Up and Away Gallipoli 18
Advertising 18
Amy, Sylvia, Billy and Lenny – Frank’s view Theatre 19
A world of knowledge on disk 19
FILM Cinema viewing for the holidays 20
Advertising 20
Cheap WINE A cricket pitch and wine 21
Miss Fortunes 21
Website Private pages 21
Advertising 22 , 23
DT SMITH 23
SHOE 23
THOSE WHO CAN’T 23
INSIDE 24
Federation condemns Nirimba senior plan 24
The more things change... 24
Huge impact 24

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Educaiton  

JOURNAL OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES TEACHERS FEDERATION  

Agreement No. PP255003 00104  

Vol. 79 0.4 April 6, 1998  

Supervision dispute unresolved  

by Sue Simpson  

Federation’s Senior Officers can-  

celled the two-hour stopwork  

planned for March 26 because  

progress had been made in negoti-  

ations with officers of the  

Department of Education and  

Training (DET) regarding the  

supervision dispute.  

The purpose of the stopwork  

had been to achieve just that.  

Federation has said all along in  

the dispute that the Industrial  

Relations Commission would not  

be in position to resolve the  

issues of increased workload and  

shifted legal responsibility that go  

to the heart of Federation’s objec-  

tions to the Director-General’s  

memo of August 21, 1997. The  

Industrial Relations Commission  

would go more to the matter of the  

Director-General’s powers in  

being able to issue such memo  

rather than to consideration of  

the appropriateness of the memo’s  

content given custom and practice  

and the finite resources of  

schools. An imposed legal solu-  

tion would be no solution.  

Following the Saturday March  

21 Council meeting intensive  

negotiations occurred over the  

Sunday, Monday and Tuesday  

with officers of DET. It was clear  

to the Senior Officers that  

progress had been made in secur-  

ing process that could lead to all  

the matters with which Federation  

had concerns being addressed. It  

was also clear that the officers of  

DET were prepared to discuss  

Federation’s broader concerns.  

DET tabled legal advice that  

was read by the President and  

General Secretary under legal  

privilege. DET was agreeable to  

an independent chairperson for  

the negotiations.  

Negotiations have been pro-  

continued on page  

Commission  

adjourns case  

The Industrial Relations  

Commission has adjourned the  

supervision case until April 7.  

The Department of Education  

and Training sees this as the last  

adjournment of the matter and if  

there is no settlement by April  

the Department will seek dates  

for arbitration of their original  

orders.  

The orders from the  

Department relate to both before  

and after school supervision.  

Brenda Seymour, Industrial  

Officer  

Teachers stop  

work and  

rally for AMES  

Adult migrant English teachers and students took their protest about the privatisation of the  

Adult Migrant English Service to the Prime Minister’s front door on March 25. About 1000  

teachers and students conducted rally outside the Prime Minister’s office in Phillip Street.  

Demonstrators then marched to Circular Quay and boarded three ferries to transport them  

across the harbour to Kirribilli to march on Kirribilli House. There was symbolic posting of  

letters and postcards that protested the destruction of AMES which for 50 years has been pro-  

viding service to newly arrived migrants and refugees.  

by Penny Carosi  

Teachers in the Adult  

Migrant English Service  

(AMES) stopped worked  

on March 25 to protest the  

privatisation of three of the  

five AMES regions. Over  

1000 teachers, students  

and community members  

attended rally outside the  

Phillip Street office of  

Prime Minister John  

Howard.  

The Federal  

Government has refused to  

respond to growing com-  

munity concern about both  

the impact of the move on  

students and about the pro-  

priety of the tendering  

process itself.  

Although the privatisa-  

tion is in the name of  

Howard Government pol-  

icy in favour of “choice”,  

the new arrangements cre-  

ate private sector monopo-  

lies in the three regions  

affected.  

The three contracts have  

been awarded to consor-  

tium headed by the  

Australian Centre for  

Languages (ACL). Three  

of the four directors of  

ACL are former officials  

of the Department of  

Immigration and  

Multicultural Affairs  

(DIMA). However, only  

one of the contracts has  

been signed at hastily  

arranged, private cere-  

mony (see story page 2).  

The Phillip Street  

protest followed rallies at  

the AMES offices in Mary  

Street on March 13 and  

rally in Bankstown on  

March 18.  

Speakers included  

Senior Vice President  

Barry Sexton for the  

Federation, Angela Chan  

for the Ethnic  

Communities Council and  

Gary Moore, the director  

of the National Council of  

Social Services (NCOSS).  

statement by ACTU  

President Jennie George  

was read by the Acting  

President of the Australian  

Education Union (AEU),  

lan Mackie.  

Federation remains dis-  

mayed by the failure of the  

State Labor Government to  

attack the Federal  

Government over the  

issue. The Carr  

Government is reportedly  

motivated by fear that  

public protest on their part  

will jeopardise the remain-  

ing two regions. We fail to  

see the logic of this.  

Federation efforts to  

pursue all possible legal  

and procedural means of  

challenging the tendering  

process have thus far  

proved unsuccessful.  

Federation is not classed as  

an “interested party” and  

therefore has been unable  

to lodge an appeal based  

on the tendering process  

with the Federal  

Administrative Appeals  

Tribunal. The State  

Government, which can,  

has failed to do so.  

continued on page  

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N.S.W. Teachers' Federation & New South Wales Public School Teachers' Federation. (1919). Education : journal of the N.S.W. Public School Teachers Federation Retrieved June 8, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-663777716

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N.S.W. Teachers' Federation and New South Wales Public School Teachers' Federation. Education : journal of the N.S.W. Public School Teachers Federation Sydney: The Federation, 1919. Web. 8 June 2025 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-663777716>

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