After 8 months of negotiations, National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) members at the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) have voted to take industrial action. Eighty per cent of NTEU members at USC participated in the vote, with 91% of those voting to stop work if required. More...
The National Tertiary Education Union (Victorian Division) is seeking a highly motivated, member-focused individual to assist us in our communication and campaigns. This is a challenging and varied role involving social media, print, video and other campaign resources as well as supporting union pickets, rallies and publicity events. The successful applicant will be committed to building the trade union movement. More...
There are so many reasons to vote out the Coalition Government at the May election: energy policy and climate change, higher education and research funding, public broadcasting, treatment of refugees, the appalling level of the Newstart allowance. It is just not possible to document their many failings in one small column. More...
For the NTEU, the major issues on higher education policy in this election are academic freedom, funding levels and students fees. More...
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...
While the Government has frozen the level of CSP funding, this has not stopped it engaging in some good old fashioned pork-barrelling. More...
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...
As the election approaches, voters can expect the Coalition to loudly recite standard slogans about their supposedly superior ‘economic management’ skills. More...
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...
The latest issue (vol. 12 no.1) of Connect, NTEU's magazine for casual and sessional academics in Australian universities, is now available. More...
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