Higher Education
Stronger public universities are vital to the success of dynamic, innovative economies, and more inclusive labour markets. But decades of fiscal restraint and corporatisation have eroded the democratic governance and …
Schooling
The issues Most young Australians receive a good education and perform above the OECD average for mathematics, reading and science. However, performance has declined at all levels of achievement compared …
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 …
Short-sighted on humanities, amnesia on science
The Government’s plan to more than double fees for humanities, society and culture, law, business, and hospitality courses to $14,500 a year makes absolutely no sense. According to the Government’s …
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 …