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

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Nef 331.8809944 EDU
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Sydney : The Federation, 1919-2021
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Vol. 41 No. 11 (17 Aug 1960)
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Contents

Education Journal of the N.S.W. Teachers’ Federation 1
FEDERAL AID AND INQUIRY PETITION LAUNCHED RY LORD MAYOR OF SYDNEY 1
Salaries Case Begins 1
Education 2
IKE'S SUCCESSOR and EDUCATION 2
THE PETITION 2
The president Wries: NO MONEY! 2
Schoolteachers for New South Wales 2
W.C.O.T.P.'s DRAFT OUTLINE OF PROFESSIONAL CODE FOR TEACHERS 2
Report Showed Need for Federal Aid but Premiers Did Not Act 3
REQUEST THAT PERIOD LOADS AND CLASS SIZES BE FIXED BY LAW 3
HAVE YOU A COPY OF THE TEACHERS' HANDBOOK? 3
£1¼M. SPENT ON AMENITIES IN FACTORIES AS REQUIRED BY LAW 3
TRANSFERS AND PROMOTIONS: PRIMARY AND INFANTS' TEACHERS 3
PRIMARY APPOINTMENTS COMMITTEE 3
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS 3
FIVE-DAY BANKING WEEK AND THE COUNTRY TEACHER 3
A.G.S.P.A. Action on Salaries 3
NO MASS IMMUNISATION AGAINST INFLUENZA; SEE YOUR OWN DOCTOR! 3
FEDERATION ASSOCIATE (RETIRED TEACHERS) 3
Service Conditions APPLICATION FOR WORKERS' COMPENSATION: PROCEDURE TO BE AOPTED 4
WHEN AN OFFICER IS CONVICTED OF A FELONY 4
WOULD YOU PLEASE NOTE-? 4
FEDERATION CODE OF ETHICS 4
NEW HIGH SCHOOLS IN 1961 4
REP LI ES from Authorities to Federation Representations 4
Wanted; A New Deal for the Correspondence. School 5
What Great-Grandad Read in His Professional Paper 5
Annual Report tells history and progress of STEWART HOUSE 6 , 7
Auditor's Report: Costs and income 6
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE 6
RECENT BOOKS Publications Received 6
As in Biblical Times 6
INCOME TAX RETURNS? 6
Editorial Comment 7
MEN TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION 7
CHILDRENS' ART AND DRAMA COMPETITIONS 7
TWO DISTINGUISHED EDUCATIONISTS TO LECTURE 7
HE TEACHERS' CLUB 7
TEACHERS' ANNUAL GOLF TOURNAMENT 7
FEDERATION LIBRARY Recent Accessions 7
LEAVE OF ABSENCE AND SALARY CHEQUES 8
TWO BOOKS REQUIRED BY TEACHERS1 COLLEGE 8
Advertising 8

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Education  

Journal of the N.S.W. Teachers’ Federation  

Registered at the General Post Office, Sydney, for transmission by post as newspaper.  

Vol. 41. No. 11.  

AUGUST 47, 1960  

Price: Threepence.  

FEDERAL AID AND  

INQUIRY PETITION  

LAUNCHED RY LORD  

MAYOR OF SYDNEY  

The nation-wide petition  

seeking Federal aid for and  

national inquiry into education  

was officially launched by the  

Lord Mayor of Sydney, Aider-  

man H. F. Jensen, on August 4.  

The National Education Con-  

ference on May 21 asked the  

two sponsoring bodies the  

Australian Council of School  

Organisations and the Australian  

Teachers’ Federation to launch  

the petition, which was to be  

addressed to the Commonwealth  

Parliament and distributed  

nation-wide, and which would  

ask for adoption of the two  

proposals put forward by the  

conference.  

The two proposals were:  

• That the Commonwealth make  

an immediate emergency grant to the  

States for education;  

• That nation-wide inquiry be  

held into the needs of primary, secon-  

dary and technical education.  

Copies of the petition are being  

distributed throughout the Common-  

wealth. All State teachers’ unions  

and parents and citizens’ federations  

are co-operating with the object of  

securing maximum number of  

signatures.  

Messages; Visitors  

The ceremony was held in the  

dining room of the Teachers’ Club  

at p.m. Mr. S. F. E. Liebert,  

President of the Federation of Par-  

ents and Citizens’ Associations, pre-  

sided.  

Mr. Liebert read letter from the Minis-  

ter for Education, Mr. Wetherell, who ex-  

pressed his regret that, owing to previous  

engagement, he would not be able to be  

present.  

An apology for non-attendance was also  

received from Mr. D. H. Drummond,  

former Minister for Education.  

Mr. Liebert announced, amid applause,  

that Mr. R. W. Askin, Leader of the Op-  

position in the State Parliament, had signed  

the petition.  

Mr. Askin wrote: “I am glad to sign the  

petition in my capacity as M.L.A. for Col-  

laroy. hold the view that any grant made  

by the Commonwealth should be free of  

conditions which impinge on the sovereignty  

of the States.”  

Members of the Federal Parliament pre-  

sent at the ceremony were Messrs. E. G.  

Whitlam, L. R. Johnson and L. J. Reynolds,  

members of the State Parliament Messrs.  

W. M. Rigby, L. J. Ferguson and T. W.  

Dalton.  

"Petition Important Event":  

President  

The Federation President, Mr. Taylor,  

said the petition was an important event  

for education in New South Wales. It  

covered all things that should happen in  

primary, secondary and technical educa-  

tion.  

Children of today were launching out  

into new world, Mr. Taylor said. Life  

would change, and the type of education  

needed would be totally different from what  

it was two or three decades ago. There was  

no field of human endeavour where scien-  

tific training was not essential. Schools  

today were not equipped adequately to train  

scientists, and there were not enough science  

teachers.  

“If we are to use the discoveries of science  

for man’s good, our young people should  

know something of the humanities. No citi-  

zen of today should go to the ballot box  

without knowledge of history and the  

humanising influence knowledge of his-  

tory gives,” Mr. Taylor said.  

The school could play an important part  

in developing in young people interests  

and attitudes which would divert them away  

from what was called “delinquency.”  

“The public will have to wake up to the  

fact that you cannot have education with-  

out teachers,” Mr. Taylor continued. “There  

is an appalling shortage of teachers in this  

State.  

“Despite this position, the State Govern-  

ment was not in position this year to  

allocate £1 towards any addition to the  

teacher training accommodation. Nothing  

has been done to provide additional accom-  

modation for the further group of students  

who will be eager and anxious to become  

teachers next year. Our classes are too large,  

and large classes are the greatest single  

cause of neglect in education.”  

There were million toddlers in the  

four-and-under group in Australia today.  

At least one-third were in this State. Dur-  

ing the 1960’s 600,000 more children would  

turn 15 than in the 1950’5. These were wait-  

ing at the feet of the educator, and the  

educator was waiting for the Government  

of Australia to do something about it.  

“On behalf of the many thousands of par-  

ents Mr. Liebert and Mrs. Brown represent,  

the 600,000 children in our schools, and the  

22,000 teachers ask you to sign this peti-  

tion,” Mr. Taylor said, addressing the Lord  

Mayor.  

"Delighted at Having  

Been Asked": L.M.  

The Lord Mayor said he was delighted at  

having been asked to launch the petition.  

“There has been great change in the  

After the signing, left to right: Dr. B. A. Cook, President of the 8.M.A.; Mr.. I. G.  

Lancaster, Secretary, Parent-teacher Education Council; Mr. Taylor; Mr. E. G. Hoy,  

President of the Farmers and Settlers’ Association of N.S.W.; Mr. Liebert; Mrs, Brown.  

pattern of life,” Alderman Jensen said. “The  

most effective people of the world are not  

those with the greatest numbers, but those  

who have developed the highest skills. There  

are communities which provide greater num-  

bers of people but are less important than  

some with much smaller numbers, and which  

are advanced in terms of the fitness for  

responsibility provided by education.  

“The great changes occurring in the world  

today are related to new knowledge for big  

masses of people to whom previously know-  

ledge was denied.  

“And so it is the responsibility of all of  

us to equip those who will inherit from us,  

so that they will be fully competent to  

discharge the responsibilities that will be  

theirs.  

Commonwealth Should Give  

Weighty Consideration  

“I think the Commonwealth Government  

may very well give weighty consideration  

to this petition. Many petitions are ad-  

vanced which try to obtain changes which  

cannot be secured. That cannot be said  

of this petition.”  

Alderman Jensen said he thought there  

was an awareness of the problem through-  

out Australia. If signatures could be secured  

from all over Australia it might well be  

that the Commonwealth Government would  

approach the matter as question of how  

much could be done to assist, rather than  

taking the negative attitude of how to find  

means of avoiding the responsibility.  

The Parent-Teacher Education  

Council  

Mrs. L. J. Brown, President of the N.S.W.  

Federation of Infants’ and Nursery School  

Clubs, said it was great pleasure to be  

member of an organisation whose aims and  

objects were so far-reaching as those of the  

Parent-teacher Education Council.  

“So many people say to me: ‘But why can  

you interest yourself in technical educa-  

tion. Your concern must be with the five-  

year-olds.’ We have noticed that children  

have habit of passing the age of five,  

and it is not very long before they become  

eligible for secondary education. As par-  

ents we want them to have available this  

secondary and tertiary education when they  

need it. That is why we are so extremely  

active in this movement.”  

Mr. E. G. Hoy, President of the Farmers  

and Settlers’ Association of N.S.W.: “We are  

concerned just as much as any other organ-  

isation in the community. offer you our  

full organisational support. We have tried  

through our national conference to obtain  

money from the Federal Government to  

bring about what you are trying to do  

today.”  

Bad Results of Overcrowding  

in Schools  

Dr. B. A. Cook, President of the N.S.W.  

Branch of the British Medical Association:  

“We are seeing from time to time the bad  

results of overcrowding in the schools and  

overworking of the teachers, and this has  

extended to university level; the University  

itself is hopelessly understaffed. hope and  

pray that your results will equal the re-  

sults that seem to be about to flow from  

the recommendations of the Murray Com-  

mission.”  

Mr. E. L„ Wheelwright. Secretary of the  

Federal Council of University Staff Associa-  

tions of Australia: “The university teachers  

have not had sufficient resources in the past  

to do the job, and we know the teachers  

in the schools have not had sufficient re-  

sources either. This means that the students  

we get are not as well prepared as they  

might be.”  

Mr. Donald McLean, representing the New  

Education Fellowship: “There will be no new  

education unless more money is spent on  

education, and unless there is new educa-  

tion Australia will slip back decade in  

the next year or two.”  

The Lord Mayor signs the petition. Stand-  

ing behind the Lord Mayor, left to right:  

Mr. S. F. E. Liebert, President, Federation  

of Parents and Citizens’ Associations; Mr.  

D. A. Taylor, President, N.S.W. Teachers’  

Federation; Mrs. L. J. Brown, President,  

Federation of Infants’ and Nursery School  

Clubs.  

Salaries Case  

Begins  

Hearing of the application  

by Mr. J. J. Maloney, Minister  

for Labour and Industry, for  

an examination by the Indus-  

trial Commission of teachers'  

salaries commenced on Aug-  

ust 11.  

Mr. J. B. Sweeney appeared for  

the Federation.  

As reported in the previous issue the  

Premier, Mr. Heffron, following discus-  

sion with representatives of the Labour  

Council, the Federation and the Public Ser-  

vice Association, said he would discuss with  

the Chairman of the Public Service Board  

opening of negotiations with the Public Ser-  

vice unions on the question of salary in-  

creases.  

Reporting to the Council on August the  

Deputy General Secretary, Mr. Nicholls. said  

at the interview the Premier did seem con-  

cerned about the position and undertook  

to see the Chairman of the Board and Mr.  

Maloney. “We do know that he had dis-  

cussions with the Chairman and we under-  

stand he did see Mr. Maloney,” Mr. Nicholls  

said.  

negative reply had been received from  

the Public Service Board to the Federation’s  

request for negotiations for new Agree-  

ment.  

The Federation had written again and the  

Board's further reply appeared to suggest  

that there was possibility of negotiations  

beinsr onened.  

The Federation had been arranging for  

witnesses and it was proposed to commence  

with headmasters and headmistresses of gh  

schools if the Federation had to appear  

before the Court.  

When the rasp opened Mr. Sweeney chal-  

lenged the valid ty of the Minister’s refer-  

ence.  

In recent press statement the leader of  

the Opposition in the State Parliament, Mr.  

skin, said he had "persistently urged the  

Premier to have the negotiations reopened  

on the ground that the Federation and the  

Public Service Association had new evidence  

to present to the Board in support of their  

claims.  

“The Government’s answer was peremp-  

torilv to announce that the question of  

teachers’ salaries generally had been refer-  

red to the Industrial Commission for inves-  

tigation and report.”  

Mr. Askin said the Government’s high-  

handed action in referring the matter to the  

Industrial Commission without reference to  

the Federat on was untenable and uncalled  

for while there was anv possibility of settl-  

ing the dispute by conciliation.  

“My colleagues are sympathetic to the  

asoirat’ons of white-collar workers gener-  

ally.” Mr. Askin said. “We believe thev  

have un’ustifiahlv lost ground in the post-  

war wages spiral.”  

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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 July 24, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-680977808

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