Archive for the ‘Industrial Issues’ Category
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
I was watching question time in Federal Parliament the other night having arrived home from a late school council meeting. I know you must be thinking - what question time? There was a question put to one of the ministers about education and the minister were extolling the virtue ...
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Over the past week newspapers all over Australia have featured articles and editorials on the Federal Governments new tax payer funded website "My School" which will allow parents [and others] to see how their schools rates against the national average in a series of tests [NAPLAN] and benchmarks [ i.e. ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
On Wednesday the Australian Principal's Federation [APF] called a stop work over the proposed industrial agreement. Its the first time anyone could remember principal class officers taking industrial action as a group.
I took this image at the stop work meeting where over 400 normally conservative principals gathered to express this anger over ...
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