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
Issue
Vol. 84 No. 07 (30 Jun 2003)
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28
Notes
Page 2 date misprinted.
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Contents

EDUCATION JOURMAL OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES TEACHERS FEDERATION 1
Stopwork on July 29 if no progress on salaries 1
State Budget fails TAFE and boosts private schools 1 , 2
Government’s restructure opposed by Federation 1 , 2
SALARIES Call for fully funded salaries award 2
Is there a future for TAFE? 2
Officers 2
Executive 2
25 per cent: Are teachers worth it? 3
Deliberate slip up? 3
IRC to hear plenty about salaries 3
Casuals discrimination case 3
Greens behind union pay claim 4
Radio campaign 4
Country colleagues walk out 4
Martin takes whip to own Government 4
Combined TAPE stopwork 4
NEWS Minister meets on Aboriginal issues 5
Vale Dud Cumming 5
Action taken over unresolved executive entitlement 5
Advertising 5
History of the child protection campaign outlined 6
Teacher-librarians collaborate on common issues 6
Detention as seen by children from the inside 6
The mountains are alive with public education 7
Letter of appreciation 7
FOSCO says farewell 7
Refugee student assistance program 7
Federation solicitor becomes Magistrate 7
ALP member supports part-time/casuals 7
Advertising 8
Child protection lobbying has an impact 9
Greens draft bill to re-direct funds 9
Don’t sign off on risk assessments 9
Our Fed Reps 9
in BRIEF 9
The President Writes Valuing and exploiting 10
LETTERS to the Editor Retired in Wagga 10
Put effort into education issues 10
Backup and support 10
History calls 10
Outside the queue 11
The bad news 11
Thanks Carol 11
Practical guidelines wanted 11
Short memories 12
Assistance and confidentiality 12
Ethos lost 16
Now or never 16
Under paid 16
Advertising 11
ADMINISTRATION Election of Presidential Officers 12
Elections at August Council 12
Election of Administrative Officers 2004-2006 13
Duties 13 , 14 , 15 , 16
Advertising 14 , 16
RETIRED VIEWS Retired Teachers Association 17
Education enhances journey from Timor to teaching 17
TAPE Teachers make 4th trip to Canberra 18
Workshops address resource issues 18
Advertising 18
What is an integrated DEC? 19
Counsellor qualifications deserve monetary recognition 19
A question of leadership and staff welfare 19
Advertising 19
Mental health of teenagers – schools can play a role 20
Advertising 20
Theatre Songs and Dance 21
Advertising 21
GOING UP THE COUNTRY Buckets of curried mince 22
Computer Corner Time lapse animation and onion skins 22
Website Aboriginal presence on the web 22
Advertising 22
FILM Travelling Birds PG Lost in La Mancha M Great films at Festival and beyond 23
cheap WINE Wines fit for a host 23
Advertising 23
Embittered journalist Mr Yen’s World 24
Up, Up and Away Great museums of the world 24
Advertising 25 , 26
DT SMITH 26
THOSE WHO CAN’T 26
Innovative approaches improving outcomes 27
Aboriginal kinship at centre stage 27
Jeans for Genes 27
INSIDE 28
Principals want transfer rights 28
July 8 rally for salaries justice 28
Harry Potter helps Stewart House 28

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EDUCATION  

JOURMAL OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES TEACHERS FEDERATION  

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Voi. 84 0.7 June 30, 2003  

Stopwork on July 29 if no progress on salaries  

by Dennis Long  

Sky Channel stopwork meeting  

of up to two hours will be held on  

July 29 if no progress is made in  

salaries negotiations.  

Federation’s June Council  

decided that the meetings would  

“inform the membership and con-  

sider further action”.  

Sky Channel stopwork meet-  

ing would involve all members in  

all workplaces.  

Agreement has been reached that  

the new award will run for two years  

and that working conditions will  

be untouched.  

However, Council noted that “no  

progress has been made on the  

Government’s inadequate quan-  

tum offer” of three per cent per  

year, calling this an “abrogation of  

responsibility to the public educa-  

tion system”.  

Federation is seeking political  

settlement with the Government for  

total claim of 25 per cent phased  

in over two years. The 25 per cent  

comprises the immediate “Vinson  

five per cent catch up”, 10 per cent  

from January 1,2004, five per cent  

from July 1,2004 and five per cent  

from January 1, 2005.  

However, if settlement cannot  

be reached and the claim is arbi-  

trated in the Industrial Relations  

Commission, the Federation is seek-  

ing commitment “that the outcome  

of salaries arbitration will be fully  

funded from Treasury”. Commis-  

sion rules make claim for phased  

in rates impractical so our claim  

would be for the full 25 per sent  

(see story page 3).  

Noting that the Government  

claims its pay offer is based on  

“incapacity to pay”, Council said the  

offer “merely represents what the  

Government is prepared to pay”.  

The Senior Officers have sought  

further meeting with the Premier  

in bid to avert an industrial cam-  

paign.  

Workplaces have been authorised  

to organise minimal supervision as  

appropriate if stopwork on July  

29 proceeds.  

Members have also been author-  

ised to take “suitable action” during  

any visits by Government MPs to  

“publicly demonstrate our anger at  

the salary offer”.  

Dennis Long  

is the Editor.  

Combined stopwork meeting of Bankstown, Chullora, and  

Lidcombe TAFE colleges asks for better offer. See story page 2.  

State Budget fails TAFE and  

boosts private schools  

by Maree O’Halloran  

The State Budget delivered on June  

24 provides greater percentage  

increase to private schools than  

public schools and cuts government  

funding to TAFE colleges.  

Despite the Government’s rheto-  

ric, the Budget has not delivered  

the significantly increased invest-  

ment that public education com-  

munities need. This need was fully  

documented by the report of the  

Vinson Inquiry into the provision of  

public education in NSW, published  

in 2002.  

The Minister’s media release  

boasts of “7 per cent increase on  

last year” in the education budget. In  

fact, the overall percentage increase  

for education and training in this  

budget is 1.3 per cent. The Minister  

can only boast of seven per cent  

increase by spinning figures, that is,  

calculating from anticipated expend-  

iture rather than actual expenditure  

in 2002.  

Facts from the Budget  

□ 22.6 per cent Budget share for  

education and training  

□ 1.3 per cent overall increase for  

education and training  

□ 1.2 per cent increase for public  

schools  

□ 0.69 per cent increase for TAFE  

(this percentage figure includes  

the extra revenue from increased  

TAFE student fees)  

□ 4.46 per cent increase for private  

schools  

□ per cent estimated inflation  

rate.  

At this stage it appears that  

increases to public schools and  

TAFE colleges will not keep pace  

with inflation.  

Wrong direction: Treasurer Egan opts for surplus over investment  

in public education.  

The Budget share for education  

and training has been declining  

since 1989. In 1989 the Budget  

share was 28.4 per cent. In 2002  

it was 23.7 per cent and in 2003 it  

is 22.6 per cent.  

Given that the Howard Fed-  

eral Government is providing  

record amounts of money to pri-  

vate schools, teachers in the public  

system had looked to the Can-  

Labor Government to redress this  

inequity, not exacerbate it.  

Properly investing in our public  

schools and TAFE colleges is  

major government responsibility.  

The NSW Government has the  

resources to significantly increase  

funding to public education. After  

eight years in government, it  

chooses not to do so. If it were true  

(as the Government alleges) that the  

NSW Government is ‘incapable’ of  

paying for needed improvements in  

public education including salary  

increases, then that would be  

major abrogation of responsibil-  

ity.  

Salaries  

The Treasurer spoke in his Budget  

address of teachers needing to  

accept “wage maintenance” offer  

of three per cent per annum for two  

years. Meanwhile parliamentarians  

have just granted themselves four  

per cent increase, putting first-  

▼ continued on page  

Government’s restructure  

opposed by Federation  

by Angelo Gavrielatos  

The State Government’s proposal to  

restructure the Department of Educa-  

tion and Training involves the loss of  

1000 positions currently supporting  

schools and TAPE colleges. The loss  

of 1000 positions equates to $6O-70  

million.  

This restructure, and therefore the  

job cuts, are driven by the need for the  

Department to find “savings” to fund  

unfunded ALP election promises.  

This represents an act of deceit by  

the Government.  

Any restructure driven by eco-  

nomic imperatives rather than edu-  

cational rationale is flawed.  

While the restructure proposal enti-  

tled Lifelong Learning — The future of  

public education in NSW is presented  

as discussion document open for  

consultation for five week period, it  

is clear that the loss of 1000 positions  

is fait accompli. The “consulta-  

tion process” harkens back to the  

facade of community consultation  

which lead to restructuring schools  

and most recently the Building the  

Future proposal in 2001 when com-  

munities were asked for input when  

the Government always intended to  

close schools.  

The announcement made by the  

Minister in Parliament on June 17  

was dressed up with all the “spin” one  

would expect. The first thing we were  

told is that“this is about getting people  

out of the bureaucracy and teachers  

back into the classroom...returning up  

to 300 teachers to the state’s class-  

rooms”. The inference that an addi-  

tional 300 teachers will be in schools  

is intentionally misleading. No addi-  

tional staffing is going into any class-  

room as result of the restructure  

these teachers will just fill vacancies.  

The DET consultant and officer posi-  

tions being axed will be subsumed  

into existing school staffing entitle-  

ments.  

Much of the spin by the Gov-  

ernment and DET would have one  

believe that this restructure is intended  

to strengthen teaching and learning  

and offer greater support for schools  

and colleges.  

In the absence of any detail, no  

teacher reading the restructure pro-  

posal would be able to reach that  

conclusion. It is impossible to identify  

what support schools and colleges  

would receive from the new DET  

structure. What is certain is that the  

loss of about 150 consultants from  

“the field” will undermine and weaken  

support for schools and colleges.  

strong consultancy drawn from  

the teaching service is recognised as  

essential in supporting the work of  

teachers in classrooms.  

Even more regrettable, the spin per-  

verts the recommendation by Vinson  

to strengthen teaching and learning by  

reorientation of the DET to ensure it  

is at the heart of operations.  

Apart from the reduction of sup-  

port for teaching and learning as  

result of the loss of more than 25 per  

cent of the consultancy, the proposed  

structure will not see the proposed  

Teaching and Learning portfolio drive  

DET.  

The proposed restructure would  

see the creation of eight regions as  

part of new Operations portfolio (29  

“education support centres” will be  

located within the eight regions. These  

replace the current 40 districts.)  

Together with other elements of  

the proposed restructure the crea-  

tion of eight regions will result in  

the establishment of 20 positions  

across the DET at the level of Assist-  

ant Director-General.  

▼ continued on page  

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