Articles from Australia
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Climate action and literacy 8 January 2021 “Can 2021 be the Critical Year for Climate Change Mobilisation?”, by Susan Hopgood.
Susan Hopgood
As we enter 2021 and wish each other a Happy New Year, the arrival of Covid-19 vaccines is a good reason for optimism regarding humanity’s most immediate threat. Unfortunately, when it comes to our most urgent long-term danger – climate change – there is no vaccine, no bright path before...
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Equity and inclusion 18 December 2020 Australia: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education unionists highlight the need for collegial and professional support in public education
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander members of the Australian Education Union (AEU) experience little or no employer-provided collegial and professional support across the public education system. Instead, they draw on opportunities to meet other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander teachers and workers in the education and training industry. Many of...
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Trade union rights are human rights 27 November 2020 Australia: Union calls for increased public education funding to reduce ‘vast inequities’ in sector
The Australian Education Union (AEU) has reiterated its demand for increased and proper funding of public education. Its call comes as the COVID-19 pandemic highlights long-standing inequities in education.
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Trade union rights are human rights 14 October 2020 Australia: Educators act against poverty and on mental health issues
The Australian Education Union (AEU) has invited its members to participate in the national Anti-Poverty Week and to support the wellbeing and mental health of students and colleagues.
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Trade union rights are human rights 21 August 2020 Australia: Education unionists join campaign to end COVID for all
The Australian Education Union (AEU) has joined the call to support vulnerable nations through the #EndCOVIDForAll campaign.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 24 July 2020 Australia: Union report highlights digital divide for public school students
The Australian Education Union has published a report showing a significant digital gap during the COVID-19 pandemic and the lack of digital inclusion for public school students.
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Standards and working conditions 17 January 2020 Global education trade union community mourns Australian Justice Trevor Olsson
Education International salutes the memory of Trevor Olsson, a highly respected jurist from Australia on the Joint International Labour Organisation/UNESCO Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendations concerning Teaching Personnel. Justice Olsson did much to promote the status of teachers over his 21 years of service.
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Trade union rights are human rights 9 January 2020 Australia: trade unions mobilise in the national bushfire crisis
Education International commends the Australian Council of Trade Unions for its prompt reaction to help communities affected by the raging bushfires and its call for donation and/or volunteering.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 29 October 2019 Australia: University attacks a professor who defended students and academic integrity
International solidarity is mobilised after Murdoch University in Australia sues Associate Professor Gerd Schroeder-Turk for whistleblowing.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 September 2019 “Copyright Issues and Teachers' Dilemma in Asia Pacific”, by Dr. Robert Jeyakumar.
Dr. Robert Jeyakumar
I woke up in Budapest on a fine summer morning to deliver a lecture using materials I had prepared in Malaysia in accordance with copyright exceptions allowed in Malaysia. Just before the lecture, I was informed that my materials did not conform to copyright laws in the EU. Dismay! This...
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Equity and inclusion 4 September 2019 Australia: AEU supports ‘Wear it Purple Day 2019’
“Wear it Purple Day” on 30 August was first started in 2010 as a response to tragic events of LGBTQ+ school students who committed suicide as a consequence of bullying and harassment. The movement is designed to show rainbow young people they are accepted and celebrated for who they are...
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Equity and inclusion 27 August 2019 Australia: National Skills Week highlights urgent need for more TAFE funding
In the framework of the Australian National Skills Week, held from 26 August - 1st September, educators urge the Federal Government to put a halt to the cuts in funding for technical and further education and the sector’s privatisation.
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Leading the profession 23 July 2019 “Productive capabilities develop TVET’s contribution to social justice”, by Gavin Moodie.
Gavin Moodie
Education International’s new report on "Technical and Vocational Education and Training as a Framework for Social Justice" charts a new way for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) to advance social justice.
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Trade union rights are human rights 1 March 2019 Australia: education union and activists will make the 2019 federal election the ‘education election’
At their Federal conference, Australian Education Union’ leaders and activists welcomed the commitment made by the Labour party to greatly increase funding for public education, and reaffirmed their determination to ensure that the upcoming federal election focus on education issues.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 25 February 2019 Australia: Entrenched inequality in public school funding
The Australian Education Union (AEU) has reacted to a report into the provision of childcare, education and training: highlighting that pubic authorities favour private schools over public schools when it comes to funding, and demanding that an end be put to the Morrison government’s inequal treateent of public schools.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 3 October 2018 “My teachers instilled in me the value of expectation”, by Kurt Fearnley
Kurt Fearnley
Nearly four million Australian children are enrolled in our world-class public education system in any given year. Students from well-off families, students from families living day-to-day. Elite athletes, some even juggling early careers as Olympians or as professional athletes, some who have never played organised sport. Budding actors and performers,...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 27 August 2018 Australia: government urged to halt underfunding of public schools!
The Australian Education Union has called on educators and concerned citizens to add their names to an open letter addressed to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull calling for more funding to be allocated to public schools and towards bringing special support for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 5 April 2018 Australia: Educators’ campaign for public schools’ fair funding
The Australian Education Union is demanding that public schools are properly resourced by public authorities with the launch of a new phase of its schools funding campaign – “Fair Funding Now!”
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