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. 82 No. 01 (12 Feb 2001)
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Contents

EDUCATION JOURNAL OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES TEACHERS FEDERATION 1
Celebrations and leafleting to mark Public Education Day 1
Big year for public education ahead 1
Award explanations go on-line 1 , 2
Advertising campaign promotes public education 1 , 2
What they said 1
NEWS New year, new faces 2
Vale Hugh Henry 2
Officers 2
Executive 2
Looming election sees EBA funding retreat 3
New award for music examiners 3
States Grants Bill carried 3
What the ALP said before they passed the Bill 3
Advertising 3
Private construction of public schools announced 4
TAFE teachers campaign against Shellharbour closure 5
Corporal punishment schools deregistered 5
Deathdefying designs bring down road toll 5
Trade union culture struts its stuff at the National 6
Health insurance, make the switch 6
Private school, Public purse 6
In BRIEF 7
Illawarra salutes Mike 7
The President Writes Another year of challenges 8
LETTERS to the Editor 8
Piers misses point 8
Step back to the past 8
Gratitude for union 9
East Timor efforts praised 9
Adding spice to retirement 9
Time needed, not training 9
Advertising 9
ADMINISTRATION Trade Union Training semester 1, 2001 10
Casual vacancies on Council 10 , 11
Some background information about Trade Union Training courses 11
TRADE UNION TRAINING APPLICATION FORM 11
Boy bashing not on 11
Warilla strike remembered 25 years on 12
Two events celebrating the 25 th anniversary 12
Our Fed Reps 12
Advertising 13
Teachers make a difference 14
Photo competition winners!! 15
WORKING CONDITIONS Understanding your award Schools Clause 27 Temporary school teachers 16
Yen compulsory reading 16
Second-hand technology 16
Advertising 16
Schools Clause 28 Casual school teachers 17
Advertising 17
Retired Teachers Association Second Friday of each month, 1.30 pm. Teachers House, Mary Street, Surry Hills Sydney. 18 , 19
Advertising 18
The 1962 Goulburn Catholic school strike 19
Advertising 20
Up, Up and The Old Curmudgeon presents: Travel Calendar 2001 21
Computer Corner Adobe and dust 21
REVIEW Interesting tactics in Irish campaign 22
Cheap WINE GSM seeks opportunities 22
Advertising 22
Theatre The Wherrett Syndrome 23
Website Banking from home 23
Advertising 23
FILM A good start to the year 24
Yolngu Boy 24
books Angel of a book 24
Advertising 24
Mr Yen's World Postcard from Melbourne 25
GOIN' UP THE COUNTRY Moving mayhem 25 , 26
Advertising 26 , 27
DT SMITH 27
Abecedarian 27
THOSE WHO CAN’T 27
INSIDE 28
Variety expressed in art 28
Wear red for parade 28
For members only 28

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EDUCATION  

JOURNAL OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES TEACHERS FEDERATION  

Agreement No. PP255003 00104  

Vol. 82 No.l February 12, 2001  

Celebrations and leafleting to  

mark Public Education Day  

by Barry Johnson  

Public Education Day on March  

15 will be major event.  

Activities will take place through-  

out Australia on that day. The day  

will be celebration of public  

education. Events on the day will  

highlight its place in Australian  

society and the need for it to be  

properly supported and funded.  

Schools and colleges have  

been asked to plan for number  

of open day type activities to be  

held on the morning of March 15  

and to involve members of the  

school community in celebra-  

tion of the role of public educa-  

tion.  

central event is being  

planned for that morning in  

Sydney. This event has the sup-  

port of the peak parent and princi-  

pal organisations and is being  

organised by the Teachers  

Federation in co-operation with  

the Department of Education and  

Training. This event will be  

broadcast via the OTEN network  

to all non-metropolitan schools  

and to all TAFE colleges com-  

mencing at 9am and lasting for  

some 45 minutes.  

Leaflets will be provided for  

schools to distribute that after-  

noon to every household in the  

school community. This leaflet  

will be sponsored by the parent  

and principal organisations as  

well as the Teachers Federation.  

separate leaflet will be avail-  

able for distribution from TAFE  

colleges.  

School staffs will also be  

Photo competition winners  

pages 14-15  

requested to send messages to  

their local Federal Member  

reminding them of the need for  

Federal governments of any polit-  

ical persuasion to properly fund  

public education. These messages  

will be followed up by delega-  

tions of parents and teachers visit-  

ing the electoral office of Federal  

Members of Parliament to deliver  

statement about the role and  

place of public education in  

Australian society and the need  

for it to be properly funded.  

In the lead up to March 15 fur-  

ther advertising will be placed by  

the Federation in support of the  

campaign.  

Barry Johnson  

is the Assistant  

General Secretary (Schools).  

Big year for public education ahead  

This year will be extremely  

important for public education  

and its place and future in our  

society. As public educators we  

must be prepared to both cele-  

brate the greatness of public  

education and demand priority  

support and funding from all  

political parties.  

The NSW Teachers  

Federation and its colleague  

public education unions  

throughout Australia, under the  

umbrella of the Australian  

Education Union, have deter-  

mined campaigning in support  

of respect for public education  

and increased funding will be  

the priority for 2001. The cam-  

paign in NSW has the support of  

the peak parent and principal  

organisations which have  

already worked together in pub-  

lic education lobbies and adver-  

tising.  

We must all ensure that in  

2001 the public education cam-  

paign enhances the image of our  

great system and that the fund-  

ing policies of Federal political  

parties properly recognise its  

place in our society.  

Award explanations go on-line  

by Dennis Long  

series of leaflets explaining  

aspects of the current award for  

members in schools and TAFE  

has been posted on Federation’s  

website.  

Written by Assistant General  

Secretary Brenda Seymour and  

Industrial Officer Diane Hague,  

the leaflets cover the areas in  

which the 2000 award is signifi-  

cantly different to the 1996  

award.  

Three of the leaflets were pub-  

lished in the December 11 edition  

of Education and two further  

leaflets can be found on pages 16  

and 17 of this edition.  

The online versions of the  

leaflets have been published with  

“plain English” web publishing  

tool developed by Social Change  

Online.  

The publishing tool is built into  

the Federation website and allows  

members to navigate topics cov-  

ered in TAFE and school sections.  

Each topic provides the actual  

words of the award with pop-up  

box containing Federation’s inter-  

pretation. Where necessary,  

Federation’s advice includes links  

to other sections of the award  

which the member may need to  

read. Each section also leads back  

to an index of all topics covered.  

The project is believed to be  

one of the most ambitious ever  

undertaken by trade union and  

reflects the desire of General  

Secretary John Hennessy for  

Federation’s website to be at the  

cutting-edge of technology.  

Social Change Online union  

projects manager Mark McGrath  

said the web publishing tool “will  

finally solve an enduring problem  

that unions have faced ever since  

they’ve gone online: being able to  

publish to the web information  

and advice on members’ working  

conditions in an easy to read for-  

mat”.  

“Whilst it has always been  

technically easy to publish award  

documents online, just publishing  

the whole award fails to address  

the web user’s need of being able  

to find important award informa-  

tion quickly and easily,” he said.  

“Awards tend to be large and  

carry lot of information that  

isn’t directly related to mem-  

continued page  

Advertising campaign promotes public education  

by Maree O’Halloran  

television commercial featur-  

ing public school teacher  

being celebrated by former stu-  

dents has marked the first use of  

the Public Education Fund.  

The television commercial  

“Mr Naylor” was broadcast on  

all commercial television sta-  

tions in the state, including  

Imparga for Broken Hill, start-  

ing January 15 and ran until the  

end of January.  

Complementary radio com-  

mercials, also promoting public  

education teachers and their  

students were also broadcast.  

The Naylor advertisement  

was adapted from television  

commercial produced by the  

Australian Education Union  

(Victoria).  

The tag was “Public educa-  

tion school and TAFE college  

teachers are proud of the work  

they do and their students’  

achievements”.  

The Public Education Fund  

was launched at Annual  

Conference 2000 for the spe-  

cific purpose of positively pro-  

moting and advertising the pro-  

fession and the public education  

system. Seventeen dollars per  

year from each member’s fees  

are directed to the Public  

Education Fund. Guidelines for  

appropriate expenditure of the  

fund were publicised in previ-  

ous edition of Education.  

The long-term plan for the  

fund is to maintain and enhance  

positive perceptions of public  

education. To this end the fund  

will be used to conduct polling  

and research during 2001 about  

public opinion. Media strate-  

gists will be engaged to develop  

long-term advertising cam-  

paign.  

The 2001 program for the  

Public Education Fund will pro-  

vide contextual backdrop for  

our priority Public Education  

campaign. The concept begun  

with “Mr Naylor” is that the  

profession is proud of our sys-  

continued page  

What they said  

The text of the radio commercial was:  

“Public education has played vital  

role in the growth of our successful mod-  

em nation with its educated and skilled  

people.  

“Teachers continue to make quality  

public education possible and are proud  

to be working in our schools and TAFE  

colleges. Proud of the job they do and of  

their students’ great achievements.  

“For young Australians the commit-  

ment and skills of teachers in public edu-  

cation are there making difference.  

“A message from the NSW Teachers  

Federation.”  

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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 18, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-680978112

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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. 18 July 2025 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-680978112>

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