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. 94 No. 12 (9 Dec 2013)
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Notes
Scool/TAFE 2014 Calendar at issue end. Blank pages have been inserted to maintain the correct�left / right pagination.
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Contents

EDUCATION Journal of the New South Wales Teachers Federation 1
Members endorse salaries and conditions award 1
Plan to break public sector salary cap 1
EDUCATION 2
contents 2
Teachers Federation House 2
Executive 2
Officers 2
Organisers 2
Improved performance and development framework to be jointly developed 3
New principal structure 3 , 5
Our Fed Reps 3
Campaign delivers for rural schools 4
Conditions apply 4
Advertising 4
ESL provision at risk 4
Birthday puts stop to schooling 4
Not illegal 4
Gonski commitment paper thin 5
Racism – it stops with us 5
Cultural diversity takes a bullet 5
Awards up for negotiations 5
Committees are the way to go 6
High Court hears union argument 6
Association spotlight 6
In brief 6
Riverina TAFE abandons HSC as cuts burn the bush 7
CPL to expand its services in 2014 7
Activism puts brake on TES cuts 7
More PD to attract teachers to the bush 8
NAPLAN's unintended consequences 8
Teaching NAPLAN fails students 8
Parliament gets behind TAFE 8
Discipline weakens disadvantage 8
katherine wins Vietnam trip 9
Prisons – the verdict is in 9
Significant powers for HSR 9
Saturday School executives win 10
Thousands back Newcastle rail 10
Membership cards on their way 10
New fees will go on website 10
VET forum starts next year 10
Tax cap abandoned 10
Cabramatta wins peace prize 11
Advertising 11
Homework for Mr Pyne 12
letters GRASS ROOTS ACTION BY VET TEACHERS HAS BIG EFFECT 12
PAYING FOR DEC’S MISTAKES 13
SPEAKING OUT 13
Advertising 13 , 14
features 15
Choice means privatisation under NDIS 15
Inside 15
Keep in touch and up to date 16
Advertising 16
Making the most of disability funds 16
Supporting complex: lives 16
Teachers and parents unite for public education 17
Paper Plane 17
Advertising 17
The year in review as seen in Education 19
Advertising 20
System support improves inclusivity in classrooms 20
Advertising 20
Retired Teachers Association 21
Social news 21
NSW steps backwards on women's rights 21
In the library New resources for loan 22
stories from the bush 22
your say 23
Proud to be Australian? Commitment to the common good is being diluted 23
Advertising 23
Inside 23
Advertising 24
Thinking of Bethlehem 24
reviews 25
Film 25 , 26
Inside 25
Book Living on the edge: rethinking poverty, class and schooling 26
Theatre 27 , 29
Computer corner 27
Advertising 27 , 28
Book A Country Too Far 28
Advertising 28
Corkscrew 29
Wine competition 29
Advertising 29 , 30
administration 31
2014 Trade Union Training program – semester 1 31
About course content 31 , 32
Inside 31
Background information 32 , 33
Casual vacancy for Industrial Officer 32
Duties common to all Administrative Officers 32
Advertising 32
TRADE UNION TRAINING APPLICATION FORM 33
Are you in the right membership category? 33
Advertising 34 , 35
DT SMITH 35
Snapped in and out of class 36
NSW Teachers Federation SCHOOL 37
2014 37
NSW Teachers Federation TAFE 2014 38
Advertising 38

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EDUCATION  

Journal of the New South Wales Teachers Federation  

Agreement No. PP2551000 07498  

Your 2014 school or TAFE  

calendar inside  

The year in review  

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December 9, 2013 Vol 94 No 12  

Members endorse salaries and conditions award  

Federation members at Burwood RSL endorse the new award  

School and OCAA members voted  

overwhelmingly on December to  

endorse 3-year salaries and condi-  

tions award that provides annual  

salary increases, preserves current  

working conditions, and, critically,  

protects the teaching qualifications  

and standards that underpin pro-  

fessional status.  

The recommendation from Ex-  

ecutive was supported by 96 per  

cent of those attending meetings  

held at 209 venues across the state.  

Meetings condemned the Gov-  

ernment's legislative changes  

that impose salary cap of 2.5  

per cent per annum on public  

sector employees through the state  

wages policy.  

campaign to repeal this legis-  

lation and overturn the policy will  

be implemented throughout 2014,  

with an intensified focus on the  

review of the wages policy sched-  

uled for 30 June and the lead-up to  

the March 2015 state election.  

Key features of the new award  

include;  

•the maximum annual increases  

allowable under state law 2.27  

per cent, 2.0 per cent and 2.15 per  

cent for the next three years;  

these will be increased to 2.5 per  

cent per annum, if the NSW Gov-  

ernment fails in its attempts to  

avoid paying the employer's con-  

tribution to the increased superan-  

nuation guarantee levy  

•from 2016, classroom teachers  

will earn projected $45,000 more  

for working nine years on the new  

step pay scale, compared with  

nine years on the current step  

scale  

•from 2016, new, higher classifi-  

cation with salary over $lOO,OOO  

for teachers who wish to continue  

working at classroom teacherlevel  

rather than seek promotion to an  

executive position  

•protecting the status of small  

schools by retaining the position  

of principal, with current release  

time for those principals also pre-  

served.  

Page 3: Improved perfor-  

mance and development  

framework, and principal  

classifications  

Plan to break public sector salary cap  

Maurie Mulheron  

President  

Federation proposes to run an inten-  

sive campaign in collaboration with  

other public sector unions to over-  

turn the O'Farrell Government’s  

unjust Public Sector Wages Policy  

and repeal the law that backs it.  

The policy limits all increases  

to 2.5 per cent per annum. CPI in-  

creases are projected to be around  

1.9 per cent which makes the  

salary increases achieved in the  

new award modest.  

Salaries increases  

The new salaries award will indude  

clause that ensures the 2.5 per cent  

increase is paid for each year, should  

the Government fail in its attempt to  

discount the 2.5 per cent per annum  

amount to 2.27 per cent, per cent and  

2.15 per cent to offset the federal super-  

annuation guarantee levy. The Govern-  

ment's attempt has already failed in the  

Industrial Relations Commission and  

was defeated in the upper house.  

New classroom teacher  

pay scale  

new classroom teacher pay scale  

has been created for teachers begin-  

ning their career in 2016. It will take  

teachers beginning in 2016 only seven  

years to get to the 'top of the scale’ in-  

stead of the current nine years.  

Once accreditation is achieved,  

progression is automatic subject to  

the normal efficiency processes.  

This is exactly the case now.  

There will be no quotas, there  

will be no barriers.  

The salary level of any teacher can-  

not be determined at the school level.  

It is automatic steps based on teach-  

ing experience. There will be five in-  

cremental steps over seven years.  

teacher beginning in 2016 would  

earn an additional $45,000 after nine  

years on the new scale compared to  

the earnings of teacher after nine  

years on the current scale.  

This is significant increase  

in earning power and will assist  

in both recruiting and retaining  

teachers in the future.  

For current teachers on the higher  

steps of the existing incremental  

scale there will be no changes.  

There will no accreditation pro-  

cess akin to the procedures for be-  

ginning teachers and they will  

remain on the incremental scale.  

New salary classification  

The other achievement that the  

union has negotiated, which has  

been longstanding policy of the-  

Federation, is to create new clas-  

sification that allows those teach-  

ers who wish to remain in the class-  

room access to higher salary.  

If teacher gains accreditation  

as highly accomplished teacher,  

then that teacher will be paid at  

rate above $lOO,OOO, midway be-  

tween ‘top of the scale' and the first  

promotion step.  

It is status, not position. It is vol-  

untary and is owned by the teacher  

while ever they remain accredited,  

and that status and salary remains  

with the teacher even if they change  

schools. It is not linked to any speci-  

fied roles within school.  

■ Tsiis;:-hew pay scale reinforc-  

es the’; high-.-standards required  

to teach in NSW public schools,  

embedsvprotections against the  

deregulatory threats of Pyne and  

Abbott who would drive down  

qualifications and is total rejec-  

tion of damaging performance pay  

schemes imposed elsewhere.  

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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 August 16, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-691502816

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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. 16 August 2025 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-691502816>

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