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. 86 No. 09 (12 Sep 2005)
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Contents

EDUCATION JOURMAL OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES TEACHERS FEDERATION 1
Salaries campaign to escalate 1
IR Day of Action set for November 15 1
High Court challenge to Howard’s ad campaign 1
NEWS Priority Action Schools Program saved 2
Schools take part in campaign 2
Vale Reg Taylor 2
Claire Shanahan retires 2
Apology 2
Officers 2
Executive 2
Victoria and South Australia reject ranking students by quartile 3
They said what? 3
AWAs already on the agenda for teachers 3
Dispelling ignorance about ethnicity 4
Recruitment is everyone’s responsibility 4
Teachers to strike in campaign for library 4
Advertising 4
Tebbutt told salaries Sky Channel set for term 4 5
Leaflets put Web Services workload in print 5
Presidential election results 5
Relief entitlements guaranteed 5
in BRIEF 5
Working for East Timor’s future 6
Trade unionism 6
Advertising 6
Give new arrivals a chance 7
Advertising 7
THA conference hears criticism and advice 8
Advertising 8
Creating a safe rural environment 9
It’s unfair 9
Poet Lorikeet dies at 66 9
Our Fed Reps 9
Child advocate to present Wyndham lecture 9
Advertising 9
The President Writes The Full Nelson 10
LETTERS to the Editor Retiring with honour 10
More double standards 11
No title 11
Technology experience 11
NRMA election 11
Sunlight could be better saved 13
Controversy over merit selection 13
Final straw 13
No title 14
Better schooling 14
Addressing complaints 14
Advertising 11 , 12
RETIRED Tetired Teachers Association 13
ADMINISTRATION Change of date for Grafton course 13
TAFE States start to cave in to Federal Government 14
Temporary teacher scare tactics 14
Carbon Copy Entrenching privilege 14
Advertising 14
VIEWS good vibrations Teaching and Murphy’s Law 15
Don’t let it get you down 15
Federation Library 15
Advertising 16
REVIEWS Up, Up and Away My mum went to Paris and all I got was this lousy t-shirt 17
Cork screw Clean skins offer quality at good price 17
Advertising 18
Theatre Coming attractions...little ado about something 19
Win tickets to the opera 19
Computer Corner A new concept for teaching reading 19
No stamp required Mr Yen’s World 20
From harsh reality to sublime fantasy FILM 20 , 21
Advertising 21 , 22
Relief Administrative Officers for 2006 21
DT SMITH 22
Gas leak sniffs out a problem with the plan 23
File 23
Community gets behind fire victims 23
Advertising 23
INSIDE 24
Resourcing crisis draws crowd 24
Looking for respect 24
Grassroots activism 24

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EDUCATION  

JOURMAL OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES TEACHERS FEDERATION  

PP255003 00104  

Vol. 86 0.9 September 12. 2005  

Salaries campaign to escalate  

Director-General Andrew Cappie-Wood has received  

four per cent pay increase.  

by Maree O’Halloran  

Sky Channel meeting of all mem-  

bers is to be held early term to  

discuss salaries.  

In letter date August 23 Educa-  

tion Minister Carmel Tebbutt was  

advised:  

“The Federation’s Annual Con-  

ference in 2005 decided that Sky  

Channel meetings would be held in  

early term to report to members  

about the salaries negotiations and  

explain the employer’s offer (or  

lack thereof).”  

The second salaries negotiations  

session between Federation’s Senior  

Officers and the Director-General,  

Andrew Cappie-Wood, took place  

on August 29. The Director-General  

took the opportunity to outline the  

State Government’s official wages  

policy to the Federation. That wages  

policy is three per cent per annum.  

The Federation rejected that policy,  

pointing out that the Director-Gen-  

eral himself had received four  

per cent increase and State MPs  

received 4.1 per cent increase.  

Furthermore, every other Depart-  

ment employees had received four  

percent per annum for four years  

fully funded, not to mention police,  

nurses and firefighters.  

The Department also had shop-  

ping fist of “trade offs” for discussion  

including loss of award conditions  

particularly for TAPE members. The  

Director-General was informed in  

no uncertain terms that the Federa-  

tion would be involved in no nega-  

tive cost-cutting or trading off of  

award conditions. Such an agenda  

belongs to the Howard Coalition  

Government.  

Following this meeting Federation  

sought clarification directly from the  

Minister, Carmel Tebbutt, on Sep-  

tember 2. The Minister has advised  

that she and the State Government  

want negotiated outcome with the  

Federation. The matters outlined by  

the Director-General to the Federa-  

tion do not represent Government  

salaries offer, instead they represent  

shopping list of matters the Depart-  

ment was hoping the union would  

discuss. It is clear to both the Min-  

ister and the Director-General that  

Federation will not entertain “trade  

offs” to award conditions.  

The next salaries negotiation was  

due to take place on September 9.  

The Sky Channel, however, is criti-  

cal to focus the attention of the State  

Government on making an accept-  

able offer to teachers. The credibility  

of the Stat Government’s industrial  

relations system is at stake.  

Maree O’Halloran  

is the Presi-  

dent.  

PAGE 5:  

Full text of the  

letter to Tebbutt  

IR Day of Action set  

for November 15  

by Maree O’Halloran  

The ACTU has called for National  

Day of Action on Tuesday Novem-  

ber 15. The Day of Action will  

include Sky Channel broadcast  

to workers and community members  

across Australia.  

The Sky Channel meeting will  

hear reports from the ACTU about  

the details of the Federal Govern-  

ment’s industrial relations legisla-  

tion and the future of the industrial  

relations campaign.  

The National Day of Action is  

designed to build on the very suc-  

cessful NSW action on July this  

year. It has the support of Unions  

NSW and will be preceded by  

new round of television and radio  

advertisements.  

The ACTU is waiting for deci-  

sion from the High Court about  

the validity of the Federal Govern-  

ment’s advertising about industrial  

relations. The ACTU has argued  

that the Federal Government is  

misappropriating taxes since the  

proposed legislation has not even  

entered Federal Parliament. The  

Federal Government has argued  

that its advertisements were neces-  

sary because the union movement’s  

“Your Rights at Work, Worth Fight-  

ing For” campaign had created  

“state of emergency”.  

Federation’s August Council sup-  

ported the idea of National Day  

of Action including Sky Channel.  

Federation is calling for rallies to  

be held in capital cities and regional  

centres following the broadcast.  

The ACTU’s industrial relations  

Sky Channel will be held few  

weeks after the Federation’s salaries  

Sky Channel. The State Govern-  

ment’s credentials as an employer  

and the credibility of the NSW  

industrial relations system will be  

tested by its attitude to teachers.  

Maree O’Halloran  

is the Presi-  

dent.  

High Court challenge to  

Howard’s ad campaign  

by Barry Johnson  

The High Court challenge by the  

ACTU and the ALP to the Federal  

Government’s $2O million publicity  

campaign in support of its proposed  

industrial relations changes began  

on August 30.  

Justice Michael Kirby called for  

Government spending to be more  

transparent and accountable and  

that control of the public purse and  

accountability for the way it was  

spent was what “battles and revolu-  

tions had been fought over”.  

Solicitor-General David Bennett  

QC argued that the advertising spend-  

ing was supported by line item in  

the budget of appropriations authoris-  

ing expenditure on “higher productiv-  

ity, higher paid workplaces”. He also  

rejected the ACTU/ALP submission  

that any authorisation had to be in the  

Portfolio Budget Statements (PBS)  

but continued that, even if that were  

the case, the workplace relations PBS  

provided for spending on “legislation  

development services” and advertis-  

ing fell within that section. Bennett  

also claimed that specific advertising  

dollars had been omitted from the  

PBS because the Federal Govern-  

ment had not anticipated that the  

ACTU would run an anti-legislation  

campaign. It is difficult to believe  

that the Federal Government could  

have been so naive.  

Bennett then argued that the adver-  

tising spending was justified because  

one could anticipate that the ACTU  

campaign would foment industrial  

action. Advertising to counter this fell  

within the authorisation for “higher  

productivity workplaces”.  

Remember, the Minister for Work-  

place Relations, Kevin Andrews, told  

supporters at Liberal Party fund  

raising function that the Federal Gov-  

ernment’s advertisements were never  

meant to be read but later defended  

the advertising spending in question  

time on August 18 saying it was  

necessary to counter the “misleading  

ACTU advertisements”.  

The Federal Government’s  

publicity campaign is designed to  

convince the Australian people that  

it’s proposed changes to Australia’s  

industrial relations laws and system  

is in their best interests. There is  

substantial evidence available to  

everyone that even the current  

Federal system has shifted the bal-  

ance in favour of employers at the  

expense of employees both in terms  

of wages and conditions. It stands  

to reason that further changes yet to  

be announced in draft legislation by  

the Federal Government will further  

alter the relationship to the detriment  

of employees. All thinking Austral-  

ians know this will be the outcome.  

No amount of Federal Government  

advertising will convince any of us  

that any other outcome is possible.  

It is interesting to note that the  

Federal Government has bypassed  

its own public servants in drafting the  

legislation and has brought in lawyers  

from Australia’s biggest corporations  

to assist. While the details are still  

hidden from public scrutiny, we are  

told not the worry and that we will  

all be better off when these changes  

are enacted. It is good to know that  

there are still fairies at the bottom  

of the garden!  

Barry Johnson  

is the General  

Secretary.  

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