Early childhood education and schooling

Australia dropped down OECD ranks based on the last Programme for International Student Assessment of 15-year-olds, and on other measures of performance have stagnated or gone backwards. The annual NAPLAN reports show that …

Early childhood development

The years from birth to the age of eight are crucial for children’s social, emotional, and intellectual development. Services currently provided for pre-school early childhood development and care are expensive, ill-defined, …

Budget: Universities

The budget has done nothing to address the crisis in university funding. The Age newspaper reported that the budget contained $19 billion dollars for universities. Was this an increase in …

Extend JobKeeper to stop uni job losses

We call on the Morrison Government to do the one thing that it has consistently refused to do so far during this Covid crisis, to support Australian universities and prevent …

IDAHOBIT

We are fed up with politicians, shock jocks and lobbyists having ‘debates’ about the LGBTIQ community and  International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and Transphobia (Sunday 17th May) is a …