This paper argues that the resourcing of our schools must be structured to achieve excellence and equity, constantly striving to increase expectations and standards in our endeavour to achieve an equality in learning outcomes for all students. Recognising that education is the most powerful transformational agent available to provide all children with a chance to...

Federal government public school funding will be cut real terms within three years based on current budget projections, according to this report, which recommends an immediate investment of at least $1.5 billion to restore federal funding to 1996 levels in order to ensure equality of opportunity. The paper puts forward two suggestions for increasing Commonwealth...

The Rudd Government came to power promising an 'Education Revolution'. For public education it offered the promise of redressing eleven years of underfunding and chronic and systematic neglect of public education and training by the Howard Government. The crucial thing for the AEU in this Budget was how far the Rudd Government would go to...

This submission to the 2020 Summit urges government to focus on a curriculum guarantee to free, secular, universally accessible public education.

Lack of resourcing for public schools is fuelling a national teacher shortage according to this survey of first, second and third-year teachers. The results of the survey of more than 1700 new teachers showed that nearly half (47.9 per cent) do not see themselves teaching in ten years time, with workload, pay, behaviour management and...