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. 53 No. 15 (13 Sep 1972)
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education JOURNAL OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES TEACHERS’ FEDERATION 1
State Aid: FEDERATION JOINS DOGFIGHT 1 , 2
P.S.B. SALARIES OFFER Wednesday, September 6, 1972 1
Tech Teachers: Travelling Time Judgment given 1 , 3
The President Writes: 2
No title 2
education 2
Editorial WHAT PRICE PUBLICITY? 2
Federation & How it works 2
Local Member at Woy Woy High 3
SALARIES: THECASE 3
Letters to the editor: Gateshead Protest 4
J. J. Cahill Protest 4
Whitton Critic 4
O’Riordan v. Cooper 4
O’Riordan Right 4 , 5
No title 4
O’Riordan Rebuffed 5
President Replies 5
Grass Roots Plea 5
The Power Struggle—Some Thoughts 5
Maintenance Survey 6
Symposium: Specialist Teachers in Primary Schools 6
HOW THEY SOLVED the Economic Crisis and Ushered in a New Golden Era of Prosperity for All 6
The Norman Catts Study Centre A VITAL EXPERIMENT 7
Topics Submitted by Associations 1972 Annual Conference 7
I’m i going home, mate! 8 , 9
No title 8
Why campaign against the Liberal-Country Party Government in November? 8
State Education Crisis: Parents & Teachers Act Together 9
Promotions Rat-race Must Go 9
New Game Teaches Farm Management Skills 9
Changed Employment Conditions 10
TAX NEWS 10
HOSTEL ACCOMMODATION FOR ABORIGINAL SECONDARY STUDENTS 10
Handicapped Children 10
Advertising 10
TREVOR MILLER MEMORIAL FUND 10
Advertising 10
AROUND STATE PARLIAMENT 11
Advertising 11
BOOK REVIEW 12 , 13
Advertising 12
Theatre 13
forty years ago 13
VERSE 13
Association Reports: 14
Advertising 14
ASSOCIATION MEETINGS 14
OBITUARIES Death of Mr. Ron Bentley 14
Federation Associate 14
Retirement of Mr. Keith E. MacDonald 14
Advertising 14
RETIREMENT OF ALTON J. GREENHALGH Principal of William Balmain College PORTRAIT FUND 14
Advertising 14 , 15
EDUCATION CROSSWORD No. 161 15
Advertising 15
federation library 15
Advertising 15
ELECTION OF ASSOCIATION REPRESENTATIVES ON THE FEDERATION COUNCIL FOR THE BIENNIAL PERIOD 1973-74 16
RETURNING OFFICERS FOR THE ASSOCIATION BALLOTS 16

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education  

JOURNAL OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES TEACHERS’ FEDERATION  

Vol. 53, No. 15  

SEPTEMBER 13, 1972  

Price: Three cents  

Registered at G.P.0., Sydney, for transmission  

by post as newspaper Category  

State Aid:  

FEDERATION  

JOINS  

DOGFIGHT  

670 replies in one week to Federation  

request for information on school  

maintenance! See story Page 190.  

The Federation Council meeting on  

August 25 passed resolution sup-  

porting the Council for the De-  

fence of Government Schools  

(D.0.G.5.) in its legal campaign to  

have State Aid abolished.  

Resolution of Support for  

Legal challenge to payment  

of funds to Non-Government  

Schools  

“In view of the policy of the Fe-  

deration in opposition to Govern-  

ment aid to non-Government  

schools, firmly established by reso-  

lution of the 1963 Annual Con-  

ference and reaffirmed by resolu-  

tions of five subsequent Annual  

Conferences, Council declares its  

support for the decision of the  

Council for the Defence of Govern-  

ment Schools to initiate legal  

challenge before the High Court on  

the validity of the Commonwealth  

Government’s State Aid payments.  

“Further, Council determines that  

$l,OOO be donated to the ‘Opposi-  

tion to State Aid Legislation Fund’,  

and further $l,OOO be guaranteed  

for costs if necessary.  

“Council recommends that all  

material relevant to this matter be  

forwarded to all Associations, be  

published in the journal and that  

full publicity, be given to contribu-  

tions made by Associations and in-  

dividual members.  

“The President be named on the  

Writ of Summons to be served on  

the Minister for Education and  

Science at the appropriate time.”  

D.O.G.S. Appeal  

The Council resolution stems from  

an appeal received from the Council  

for the Defence of Government  

Schools addressed to the General  

Secretary.  

The letter is reprinted below:  

Dear Mr. Lancaster,  

“We write to inform you that the  

Council for the Defence of Govern-  

ment Schools has initiated legal  

challenge to the Federal govern-  

ments’ legislation on State Aid to  

private schools.  

“We understand that your organi-  

sation is opposed to State Aid for  

private schools and we invite you to  

join us in this action to have the  

Hi ah Court rule on the validity of  

the Commonwealth Government’s  

State Aid payments.  

“A strong case will be put before  

the Court. As well as Australian  

(Melbourne) solicitors and barris-  

ters, we have engaged the services of  

the foremost American Attorney in  

this field. This Attorney led the case  

which resulted in the historic June,  

1971, Supreme Court decision  

against State Aid in the U.S.A. This  

gentleman visited Australia recently  

(at our expense) to conduct feasi-  

bility study into the proposed chal-  

lenge and to set guidelines for our  

Australian solicitors. We have spent  

over $7,000.00 so far in preparatory  

study and in preparing the case to  

be presented to the High Court.  

“The Australian Council of State  

School Organisations (A.C.5.5.0.)  

has joined with us in this legal  

attempt to stop State Aid. They are  

supporting the case financially and  

by means of petitioners.  

“We hope that your organisation  

will agree to join us in this case.  

“The ways in which you can assist  

us are as follows:  

(a) provide finance to pay legal ex-  

penses associated with running the  

case. fund known as the “Oppo-  

sition to State Aid Legislation” fund  

to meet the legal costs of conducting  

the action has been estab-  

lished. This fund is specific fund  

for the sole purpose of the Legal  

Challenge. It is open to inspection  

by A.C.S.S.O. and associates and  

others, is subject to audit and can-  

not be used for political or other  

purposes than the legal action. To  

date $7,000.00 has been spent, at  

least another $15,000.00 is required.  

A.C.S.S.O. have promised several  

thousand dollars to this fund.  

(b) nominate one person (presum-  

ably your President or your Secre-  

tary) to be named on the Writ of  

Cont. col. 3, Page 186  

P.S.B. SALARIES OFFER  

Wednesday, September 6, 1972  

$4 to $lO per week increase for non-graduate assistants  

$3 to $ll per week increase for graduate assistants  

GAI increased $340 p.a. to $5400  

CAI increased $222 p,a. to $4OOO  

SECONDARY  

Subject master/mistress .. increased $740 p.a. to $8930  

Special master/mistress increased $6BB p.a. to $8250  

Deputy principal increased $1055 p.a. to $9850  

Principal, secondary increased $1053 p.a. to $l2lOO  

PRIMARY  

Deputy master/mistress .... increased $629 p.a. to $7590  

Principal increased $922 p.a. to $B4OO  

Deputy principal increased $672 p.a. to $Bl5O  

Deputy principal increased $740 p.a. to $8930  

Principal increased $956 p.a. to $10950  

Tech Teachers:  

Travelling Time  

Judgment given  

By Max Taylor.  

Assistant General Secretary (Technical Education)  

On August 28, Justice Sheldon  

brought to close the Tech-  

nical Teachers’ travelling time  

issue. His judgment in the  

Crown Employees (Teachers’  

Department of Technical Edu-  

cation) Travelling Compensa-  

tion Award has justified all the  

effort teachers put into obtain-  

ing better working conditions.  

For many years technical teachers  

have faced loss of their own time  

because of excessive travelling. Such  

teachers are usually assisting the  

efficiency of the department by  

carrying out their duties at two or  

even three colleges. In many cases  

the time taken on travel between  

these colleges consumes hours that  

those travelling to one college or  

school do not lose. To add to the  

grievance, those within the County  

of Cumberland received some com-  

pensation while those outside this  

area received none.  

Conference Resolution  

At Annual Conference last year  

Federation promised support to any  

technical teacher who refused to  

travel outside his normal duty hours.  

Such teachers were to inform the  

General Secretary if they were  

directed to carry out such action  

and he would authorise them to take  

stand on the issue.  

The people in the Western Region  

were particularly adamant about  

this issue and Mr. J. Tynan,  

plumbing teacher at Dubbo was the  

first to stop. He did so after includ-  

ing his travelling in his duty hours  

and thus not completing the pro-  

gram set for him by the depart-  

ment. Other teachers at Orange,  

Lithgow, Parkes and Bathurst also  

stopped once they had reached the  

same situation as Mr. Tynan.  

Teacher Charged  

The Public Service Board asked  

Federation to confer on the issue  

on Monday, February 28. At the  

same time they proceeded to charge  

Mr. Tynan with wilful disobedience  

under Section 56 of the Public Ser-  

vice Act. This punitive action was  

direct challenge to Federation’s  

Annual Conference decision that  

“the moment any punitive action is  

taken, State-wide stopwork meetings  

will be held to consider what further  

action will be taken”.  

At the meeting with the board,  

Federation demanded that the board  

assist in expediting hearing by the  

Industrial Commission for travelling,  

compensation. The board should  

also assist in organising an inde-  

pendent enquiry into class sizes.  

Thirdly if the board didn’t take dis-  

ciplinary action against teachers who  

acted in accordance with Federation  

policy then Federation officers  

would recommend suspension of  

threatened stopwork action.  

Proposal Rejected  

The board rejected these proposals  

by informing Federation that it had  

already referred the issue to the In-  

dustrial Commission. The board  

Cont. col. 1, Page 187  

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