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. 81 No. 05 (15 May 2000)
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Contents

EDUCATION JOURMAL OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES TEACHERS FEDERATION 1
Support still strong for campaign 1 , 2
Eight more Labor seats targeted 1
Facing the future 1
Advertising 2
Officers 2
Executive 2
NEWS Withdrawal of goodwill 3
What the other side wants from a salaries deal 3
Seaforth activities continue 3
People’s Walk for reconciliation May 28 3
Ombudsman recommends significant changes to disciplinary processes 4
ANZAC memorial in new home 4
Fitz in at AEU, Sharan at the ACTU 4
Advertising 4
Teacher education reviewed 5
Penrith meeting to scrutinise government funding 5
Keeping andhealthv Jr White ants carve out problems for school 5
Excursions into professional teaching standards 6
Time to consider Health Cover 6
Advertising 6
Moree invites teachers beyond the line 6
Advertising 6
Fire files a must 7
In BRIEF 7
Advertising 7
Three year terms for Presidential Officers proposed 8
Solomons workers win back jobs with international support 8
Advertising 8 , 9
The President Writes Federation’s proposal to end the dispute 10
LETTEES. to the Editor 10
No support, no benefit 10
Cleaning hours cut 11
Double meaning for computer viruses 11
Support culture of peace 11
Two steps forward, one step back 13
Selfish and divisive 13
Dirty schools not the priority 13
Lash at Labor Party 13
Don’t betray TAFE 13
Why bother? 13
Raw deal for casuals 13
One for all 13
Trade-off dilemma 14
Take kid gloves off 14
Carbon Copy We are not sheep 14
Call for resignation 14
Will we ever learn? 14
GST hits invalid pensions 14
PPT inequity 14
‘Activist rhetoric’ 19
Howard hit 19
Health Society saviours 19
Name swap creates SWAPDA 19
No beef about Wellington 19
Join now 19
Clear and simple 19
Support appreciated 21
Stir up good ideas 21
Too broke to strike 21
No need for apology 21
Clear strategy needed 21
Advertising 11 , 12 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20
Board of Studies report 21
ACCOUNTS Year end accounts NSW Teachers Federation 22
Australian Education Union (NSW Branch) 22
RETIRED Retired Teachers Association 23
TAFE Federal and State Government policies attack TAFE 24
Senate Inquiry into the Quality of Vocational Education and Training 24
Advertising 24
VIEWS An extra year in office for the President? 25
Why does Dr Boston get it wrong? 25
Country closures affect school communities 26
What the public should know 26
Bougainville needs help now 26
Website Union supports improved learning 26
REVIEWS cheao WINE Hunter wine and food are coming to town 27
Challenge laid to help East Timor 27
What comes first... the film or the book? 28
Up, Up and Away Visit Berlin, a city of art 28
Living the life of royalties Mr Yen's World 29
9 9 Hand coding your website 29
Advertising 30 , 31
DT SMITH 31
SHOE 31
THOSE WHO CAN’T 31
INSIDE 32
Uniting for Aboriginal education 32
National campaign demands fair share 32

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EDUCATION  

JOURMAL OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES TEACHERS FEDERATION  

Agreement No. PP255003 00104  

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Support still strong for campaign  

Members have remained active  

behind the salaries and starts cam-  

paign, with strong attendance at  

Sky Channel meeting on April 14  

and strong support for 24-hour  

strike on May 4. More than 21,000  

members voted at the Sky Channel  

meeting and the Government has  

conceded that at least 72 per cent of  

teachers stopped work on May 4,  

figure which Federation considers to  

underestimate the numbers partici-  

pating.  

The strong support for the union  

and the campaign has come in the  

face of unprecedented attack on the  

members and on Federation by the  

Carr Labor Government and the  

media, led by the Daily Telegraph.  

The Sky Channel meetings  

resulted from the failure of the  

Government to agree to settle the  

dispute on satisfactory grounds after  

10 weeks of negotiations. Members  

heard detailed report and resolved  

to reject Government’s offer made  

on April 12. However, the resolution  

conceded that the “quantum and  

configuration” of the April 12 offer  

“could provide an acceptable frame-  

work for negotiated settlement”.  

The resolution noted nine areas in  

which progress had been made,  

including full funding by Treasury  

and two per cent cash payment for  

permanent teachers dated from the  

expiry of the previous awards on  

July 1,1999 but specified eight areas  

where improvements were neces-  

sary.  

Members also declared their  

willingness to resume industrial  

action in the form of 24-hour  

stoppage on May and with-  

drawal of teacher goodwill.  

At the Sky Channel meeting  

19,876 voted in favour, 852  

against and 332 abstained.  

During the holidays, the  

Government chose to return to the  

Industrial Relations Commission.  

The salaries dispute was the sub-  

ject of conciliation conference  

before Deputy President Sams and  

further discussions between the  

parties were held.  

On April 26, the Department of  

Education and Training (DET)  

brought back some minor changes  

to some items in its April 12 pro-  

posal. There remained substantial  

areas of difference between the  

parties. Three of these were:  

• whether teaching outside normal  

school hours between 7.30 am  

and 5.30 pm should be by direc-  

tion or with agreement of the  

teacher concerned  

• genuine pay equity for casual  

school teachers and part-  

time/casual teachers in TAFE  

• the DET’s attempt to impose  

additional workload on TAFE  

teachers in what they refer to as  

need for improved productivity  

in TAFE.  

On April 27, DET indicated it was  

not prepared to negotiate further  

with Federation and sought an end  

to the conciliation conference.  

They then requested that the full  

bench of the Commission be con-  

vened for the purpose of setting  

dates for hearing their award  

application.  

Deputy President Sams  

declined to issue the certificate  

necessary to mark the end of con-  

ciliation and recommended “that  

meeting should take place in the  

next 24 hours between the  

Minister, the Labor Council of  

NSW and Senior Officers of the  

Federation and the Department  

with view to finally and conclu-  

sively resolving the current  

impasse”. He also said that having  

“regard to the substantive agree-  

ment so far reached, am reluctant  

at this stage, to see all this good  

work come to nought by the par-  

ties reverting to their trenchant  

positions of six months ago  

long drawn out arbitration will be  

the only result and would be in no  

one’s interest”.  

The meeting which Deputy  

President Sams requested  

occurred on April 28 and special  

continued page  

Eight more Labor seats targeted  

by Barry Johnson  

The postcard campaign targeting  

marginal ALP seats has now been  

expanded to include eight new  

seats.  

Almost 3000 postcards, which  

put the Labor Party on notice in  

these electorates, have been deliv-  

ered by the Federation as follows:  

Blue Mountains 462  

Georges River 280  

Keira 580  

Maitland 196  

Menai 678  

Ryde 233  

Strathfield 218  

The postcards are in the form  

of “Notice to Local Member”  

which advise that the signatory  

will not be voting for any ALP  

candidate in the next state election  

if the Department of Education  

and Training’s award application  

proceeds and there is no negoti-  

ated political settlement to  

increase the salary and status of  

teachers. The cards were sent to  

Federation members who reside in  

each electorate for signature and  

return to the Federation.  

The eight new seats are in addi-  

tion to the seats of Miranda,  

Clarence and South Coast  

Education February 14).  

The cards clearly represent the  

level of teacher anger and bitter-  

ness that has been engendered by  

Put the pressure on local MPs in marginal seats ...(clockwise from top left  

Ryde MP John Watkins, Kogarah MP Cherie Burton, Blue Mountains MP  

Bob Debus, Menai MP Alison Megarrity, Strathfield MP Paul Whelan, Keira  

MP David Campbell, Maitland MP John Price, Georges River MP Kevin  

Greene.  

this dispute. This is also borne out  

by copies of the many letters to  

members of the Government sent  

to the Federation for information  

which clearly indicate the political  

legacy the Government will reap  

from its attitude and tactics in this  

dispute.  

The Government has failed to  

recognise its continued insistence  

on unacceptable changes to work-  

ing conditions have been totally  

rejected by teachers. It fails to  

understand its continued quest for  

return to archaic forms of  

teacher accountability which have  

no place in modem education  

system are simply unacceptable.  

It has not realised that to pay  

teachers in public schools, perma-  

nent and casual, less than teachers  

in Catholic schools underscores  

the whole of its agenda as an  

attack on the public education sys-  

tem.  

The Government has failed to  

recognise that its attacks on  

Federation and its leadership and  

its attempts to divide teachers  

from their union will fail.  

Its criticism of Federation’s  

democratic decision making  

processes orchestrated via the  

media is both very sad and sinis-  

ter. One of the great underpin-  

nings of our democratic society  

has been the public education sys-  

tem.  

Members of the Government  

have to realise that teachers will  

not forget these attacks and will  

demonstrate this when next they  

get to exercise their democratic  

rights at the ballot box.  

Barry Johnson  

is the Assistant  

General Secretary> (Schools).  

Facing the future  

Federation Executive met on May to draft the recommendation to the  

May 13 Council meeting. Listening to Sue Simpson (back to camera) report  

are, from left, Kathy Deacon, Nola Edsall, Steve Player, Bob Treasure and  

Garry Grant. Full details of Executive members as well as Officers, how  

they are elected and when they can vote are, as ever, on page2.  

From Mudgee to  

Macquarie Street  

Striking teachers made the most of the opportunity to put the pressure on  

politicians. Outside the gates of Parliament House, Maureen Davis, Jason  

McGrath, Des Moore, Lea Poustie, Debbie Westacott and Bob Hall prepare  

to lobby their MPs. Teachers met at the Mudgee Bowling Club in Mudgee  

to write letters to politicians regarding the salaries dispute.  

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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 August 12, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-680906703

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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. 12 August 2025 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-680906703>

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