Education and union reading
Australia's teachers are burnt out and fed up. Here's why
Stories of teacher burnout are becoming more common, at a time when the country is grappling with a teacher shortage crisis.
Schools will struggle with teacher shortages until 2025 – report
Australia’s teachers told the State of the Sector report that resolving school staff shortages should be the top priority of the nation’s education system, with expectations that the crisis will persist until 2025.
'I'd just like to get on with my job' – the barriers facing science teachers in Australia
The current teacher shortage in Australia has been building for years.
The pipeline of new teachers entering the profession is inadequate, and attrition rates are high, particularly in science and mathematics.
Shortages have led to more teachers teaching subjects “out of field”. Recent estimates show 29% of science classes are taught by someone who is not trained as a science teacher.
What this school in Darwin can teach the rest of Australia
Good schools produce excellent academic results, says Darwin principal Fathma Mauger, but great schools understand the link between academic success and their students’ physical and mental wellbeing.
Tasmania: Unions are ready to go to war over the government's pay offer — and Jeremy Rockliff is running out of time
Buckle your seatbelts: the fight between public sector unions and Premier Jeremy Rockliff over a new pay deal is just getting started — and there's every indication it could be a long one.
Australia’s Unemployment System Is a Marketised, Bureaucratic Nightmare
How can there be labour shortages when there are still so many job seekers looking for work? Australia’s privatized employment services system doesn’t help people find work. Instead, it punishes welfare recipients with a bureaucratic maze of “mutual obligations.”
Where to after the Jobs and Skills Summit?
Only a mobilised union movement will break the power of the billionaire class and ensure workers are properly paid for keeping the economy and society functioning.
OUR NEW NEW TIMES: LABOR’S ALTERNATIVE TO CAPITAL IS CAPITAL
In the week of the much-vaunted Job Summit, Labor’s full transition to being a party of capital is complete.
Michael Pascoe: When everyone knows what’s needed, but none is game
Here we go again. Everyone involved or just vaguely interested in public policy knows we need some serious tax reform, that we will be poorer without it – but there’s no sign of anyone with the ticker to do it.
Five ways to lift living standards
Workers’ living standards are being pushed down as capitalists raise prices and hold down wages. While the wages share of national income is the lowest on record, corporate profits are at their highest.
Jeff Sparrow: As resistance grows to the fossil fuel regime, laws are springing up everywhere to suppress climate activists
Along with subsidising big polluters, governments are setting in place repressive anti-protest laws to protect them.
‘He was deadly, a deadly man’: remembering the incredible life and work of Uncle Jack Charles
Thank you, Uncle Jack, for bringing to people’s minds and homes to not fear the other. No doubt there is mourning across all Aboriginal communities, prisoners and street people across Australia.
With the death of Queen Elizabeth comes the death of a republican dream
The assertion that, hey, humanity can run its own affairs has taken a battering through two decades of failed wars, crashes, failed recoveries, the collapse of conventional politics, the rise of conspiracy theories and the failure of populism to deliver.
Barbara Ehrenreich Made Socialist Ideas Sound Like Common Sense
Barbara Ehrenreich was driven by both her undying anger at the profound injustices of life under capitalism and a fervent hope that the world doesn’t have to be this way.
How the US Democratic Party embraced Neoliberalism
In the US, as in other capitalist democracies, private business interests make the key decisions about where to invest. Public policies, at best, mop up some of the damage.