Research slashed (Advocate 26 01)
NTEU’s analysis shows that since May 2018, the Turnbull-Morrison Government has slashed research block grants by more than $328 million over four years. More...
CDP is racist and must be abolished (Advocate 26 01)
Since 2015, many communities in regional and remote Australia have been subject to the Federal Government’s so-called Community Development Program (CDP). In effect, the program itself is a targeted Work for the Dole program, except that participants in the communities it has been applied to are required to work 25 hours per week, all year round, in order to comply with this program and receive their basic unemployment payment. More...
Climate the hot topic (Advocate 26 01)
For the first time since the millennial drought, climate change is likely to be a significant issue in the 2019 Federal Election.
The Australian summer of 2018-19 brought home to Australians the reality that the climate is changing, and for the worst – soaring temperatures, massive heatwaves and raging bushfires; torrential rains and devastating floods, depending on which part of the country you’re in. More...
Pork-Barrelling 101 (Advocate 26 01)
While the Government has frozen the level of CSP funding, this has not stopped it engaging in some good old fashioned pork-barrelling. More...
Pre-election policy submission season (Advocate 26 01)
The pre-season opener was followed by the all team pre-budget submission round, where teams from all over Australia in all divisions are invited to participate in what is effectively a knock-out competition. The final this year has been brought forward, with the winners to be announced in the Budget on Tuesday 2 April. More...
Is the economy outstanding or underperforming? (Advocate 26 01)
As the election approaches, voters can expect the Coalition to loudly recite standard slogans about their supposedly superior ‘economic management’ skills. More...
After Christchurch: Standing up to racism (Advocate 26 01)
After the horrific Christchurch mosque shootings, there have been heartening displays of solidarity with Muslim communities. Four thousand people, Muslims and non-Muslims, came together at the Stand Together Against Racism rally in Melbourne the day after the tragedy to say that there is no place for racist hate in our society. It shouldn’t take tragedies such as this to notice how entrenched racism and Islamophobia have become in Australia. The horrific violence was a product of decades of vitriolic Islamophobia and anti-immigrant racism, currently led by the Coalition Government in Australia. More...
2019 Federal Budget - through the gender lens
There is very little in this Federal Budget that targets women and certainly nothing to address gender inequality and sexism, the gender pay gap, superannuation inequity or to insecure and underemployment of women. The Budget headlines – namely tax cuts and the injection of $100 billion for infrastructure over a decade – will see broad benefits for the majority of wage earners, especially commuters, but will not be evenly distributed between women and men. More...
NTEU Response - 2019 Federal Budget
As anticipated in the NTEU’s pre-Budget posting the government did not use its improved Budget bottom line to reverse the freeze on university funding or restore demand driven funding, let alone deliver a significant boost to public investment in higher education. Instead the government used its improved Budget bottom line (due to better than expected iron ore and coal prices and a big under spend in the NDIS) to double the size of immediate tax offsets for people earning between $40,000 and $126,000 and lowering personal income tax rates which will cost the budget an estimated $20billion in revenue over the four-year forward estimates and some $158billion over ten years. More...
2019-20 Federal Budget
What can we expect in this year’s Budget? The NTEU is not anticipating that the government will use the unexpected improvement in the Budget bottom line, largely as result of unexpected improvements revenue as a result of better than expected commodity (iron ore and coal) prices, to reverse the funding freeze and restore demand driven funding and increase public inevestment in higher education, but are happy to be proven wrong. More...
