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Correna Haythorpe has spent 17 years teaching in public primary schools. Most of her teaching has been in low socioeconomic areas of northern Adelaide and Port Pirie, in regional South Australia. She also taught in the UK and Japan.

Correna served as AEU SA Branch President from 2008 to 2013. She took on the additional role of Deputy Federal President of the AEU in 2013 and has represented the AEU nationally and internationally with Education International. She was elected to the Education International Executive Board in 2024, at the 10th World Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

As the AEU’s Federal President since 2015, she leads the union in the fight to secure a strong, fully funded public education system via the For Every Child, Rebuild with TAFE and Preschool Funding Now! Campaigns. She has extensive experience and understanding of social justice issues, with a particular interest in students and their families from disadvantaged areas. Correna has a strong philosophical and personal commitment to public education.