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

Call Number
Nef 331.8809944 EDU
Created/Published
Sydney : The Federation, 1919-2021
Issue
Vol. 95 No. 09 (15 Sep 2014)
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Contents

EDUCATION Journal of the New South Wales Teachers Federation 1
The Abbott Government: one year on The Coalition was elected promising a 'unity ticket' on schools funding. What they have delivered is division and disadvantage. 1
ESL teacher positions to be maintained 1
On the record 1
EDUCATION contents 2
Teachers Federation House 2
Executive 2
Officers 2
Organisers 2
Reviewing workload together 3
School Plan delay welcomed 3
Our Fed Reps 3
Win on practicum payment 3
What’s on 4
Stand up for education from cradle to career 4
Abuzz with exciting advances 4 , 6
Ensuring accountability for Gonski funding 4
Coastal communities challenge cuts 5
High profile for education campaigns 5
Abbott Government puts chaplains ahead of students with disabilities 5
Casual teachers must replace absent colleagues 6
Workplace Committees the key 6
Association spotlight 6
Encourage your MP to support the Save TAFE bill 7
Springing into a new season of campaigning 7
Women going backwards 8
Call for more diversity in HSC courses 8
stage 6 syllabuses 8
Country teachers keen on CPL courses 8
Advertising 8
Events promote positive community relations 9
ICAC 9
Advertising 9
Battalions and beer 10
There’s nothing casual about teaching 10
Casual and Temporary Teachers Handbook 10
Bridge St concern fobbed off 10
Opportunities for injured workers 10
Cruise for charity 11
Women setting the agenda 11
An amazing two days 11
In brief Reconciliation reaches out to the young 11
Opportunity for central schools 12
Seminar for casual and temporary teachers 12
Advertising 12
Record support for rainbow youth 13
Gender is not uniform 13
Workshops to cover inclusive practices 13
Advertising 13
In brief 14
Advertising 14
Virtual school's conditions a real issue 15
Q&A Confidential advice 15
Advertising 15
Taxing learning 16
letters WORRYING SIGNS FOR ENGLISH 16 , 17
WHISPERS ARE NOW A ROAR 17
IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL 17
THE ONE SIDED BUCKET 17
Advertising 17
HOPEFULLY NOT OUT OF MIND 18
CHECK CAREFULLY AND BE PRINCIPLED 18
AGAINST COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT 18
Advertising 18
features 19
Turkish delight How students from Wiley Park Girls HS learned about space, history and leadership. 19 , 22
Inside 19
Paper Plane 20
Retired Teachers Association 20 , 22
SOCIAL NEWS 20
Education for the modern Maya 21
In the library New resources for loan 21
stories from the bush 22
reviews 23
Film 23 , 24
Inside 23
Computer corner 24
Advertising 24
Theatre 25 , 27
Book 25
Small group/pair discussion 25
Advertising 26
Corkscrew 27
Book 27
Small group/pair discussion 27
Suggestions for leaming activities 27
A century of teaching experience 28
Up to the Collar: an Autobiography 28
administration 29
New Activist Conference 29
Organisational review of the Federation 29
2015 Project Officers – recruitment and activism 29
Advertising 30 , 31
DT SMITH 31
Snapped in and out of class 32

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EDUCATION  

Journal of the New South Wales Teachers Federation  

Agreement No. PP2551000 07498  

Guess who went to the Cabramatta  

Moon Festival  

Plus  

Bridge St 10  

Boxing Day cruise II  

New Activist Conference 29  

September 15, 2014 Vol 95 No  

The Abbott Government:  

one year on  

The Coalition was elected promising 'unity ticket' on schools  

funding. What they have delivered is division and disadvantage.  

Discord and division: On August 31 March in Australia protestors turned out again in Sydney (pictured) and across the nation to  

denounce the policies of the Abbott Coalition Government.  

Maurie Mulheron  

President  

We have had 12 months of lies and  

broken promises from Govern-  

ment that is happy to entrench ine-  

quality and turn its back on the coun-  

try’s most vulnerable students.  

Within three months of being  

elected, public anger forced Feder-  

al Education Minister Christopher  

Pyne to back down on flagrant at-  

tempt to break his election promise  

and end Gonski funding agreements  

after just one year.  

Instead, the Abbott Government  

waited until the May Budget to tell  

schools the last two years of the  

Gonski funding agreements would  

be abandoned. That means that two-  

thirds of the Gonski funding will not  

be delivered and many schools will  

not reach the minimum resource  

standard recommended by the  

Gonski review.  

In Opposition Tony Abbott  

promised the public he would "fund  

schools ever more generously”, but in  

Government he changed his tune to  

"we must reduce the rate of spending  

growth in the longer term”.  

This government has also broken  

its promise to increase the disability  

loading from 2015, and will, in fact,  

strip $lOO million out of disability  

education by not extending National  

Partnerships funding.  

But in Opposition, Christopher  

Pyne committed to increasing the  

disability loading, saying then that  

funding for students with disabili-  

ty was "unfair and inequitable". His  

breaking of that promise will lead to  

more hardship for some of the most  

vulnerable students in Australia.  

There are more than 100,000 stu-  

dents with disability missing out on  

the support they need in schools. It  

is an indication of this government’s  

priorities that it has no money for  

them but will spend $243 million  

to continue its attempt to push reli-  

gious chaplains into public schools.  

few weeks after the Budget  

Christopher Pyne told private  

audience in Canberra that he and  

Tony Abbott believed they had  

"particular responsibility for non-  

government schooling that we don’t  

have for government schooling”.  

These comments are clear rejec-  

tion of the principles underpinning  

the Gonski Review with its emphasis  

on sector-blind, needs-based funding.  

The Gonski report is the most thor-  

ough, most credible analysis of schools  

funding this country has ever had. It  

demonstrates that funding schools on  

the basis of student needs will provide  

all children with the best opportunity  

to achieve their full potential.  

This Government wants to ignore  

it, and the growing body of interna-  

tional evidence that equity in funding  

is the best way to deliver excellence  

across school system.  

In school funding, as in so many  

areas, the fiction of "budget emer-  

gency” is being used to justify an ide-  

ological agenda that views education  

as an individual cost rather than na-  

tional investment.  

We are seeing this agenda in all  

parts of the education system: from  

cuts to childcare, early childhood edu-  

cation, schools, TAFE, through to the  

20 per cent cut to university funding  

and the prospect of $lOO,OOO univer-  

sity degrees.  

One year on, under the Abbott  

Government, Australia is in danger  

of entrenching inequality and  

disadvantage for generations to come.  

ESL teacher  

positions to be  

maintained  

Tribute to members: public forum on July 22 was key point in the campaign.  

Gary Zadkovich  

Amber Flohm  

The Department has confirmed  

its commitment to maintaining  

the current number of English as  

second language (ESL) teacher po-  

sitions from 2015 when the Gonski  

loading for students with limited  

English language proficiency is  

to be implemented (see letter in  

sidepanel).  

This is significant, positive re-  

sponse to the Federation’s cam-  

paigning to protect the current  

statewide allocation of 896 (full  

time equivalent) ESL teacher posi-  

tions since the announcement of  

the Local Schools, Local Decisions  

(LSLD) policy and the advent of the  

Resource Allocation Model (RAM).  

Community support for the  

maintenance of ESL teacher posi-  

tions was evident in the attendance  

of more than 200 people at forum  

held in the Federation auditorium  

on July 22.  

The Department's maintenance  

of this staffing entitlement for ESL  

students will be welcome news in  

schools across the state. It is fur-  

ther affirmation of broad support  

for the Gonski funding model and  

an ongoing commitment to ensur-  

ing that the many thousands of  

public school students with addi-  

tional needs are provided with the  

support necessary to achieve their  

potential in education and later life.  

Federation will continue to work  

with the Department to ensure  

that the Gonski funding model is  

utilised to the benefit of all NSW  

public school students.  

Gary Zadkoinch  

is the Deputy Presi-  

dent and Amber Flohm is the Multicul-  

tural Officer/Organiser.  

On the record  

The Department of Education and  

Communities wrote to Federation  

on September in part:  

"With regard to the Federa-  

tion’s request for clarification on  

the allocation of teacher staffing  

for ESL students, the Department  

confirms that the current number  

of ESL teacher positions {896 FTE)  

will be retained and will continue  

to appear in school staffing entitle-  

ment reports from 2015, These ESL  

teacher positions will continue to  

be provided based on ESL student  

needs in each school and must be  

maintained and filled as ESL teach-  

er positions in all schools."  

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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 May 3, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-691403991

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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. 3 May 2025 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-691403991>

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