In October, Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU) General Secretary, Lee Cheuk-yan, gave a stirring and emotional speech via video link to NTEU National Council. Council was greatly moved by his words, giving him an extended standing ovation and passing the following motion unanimously. More...

Publishing a scholarly journal is something that many learned societies and other organisations do. NTEU is the publisher of the Australian Universities’ Review (AUR), now into its sixty-first year as a higher education journal. More...

NTEU, alongside the Australian Education Union (AEU) and Independent Education Union (IEU) declared our support for the School Strike 4 Climate in September. More...

As a trade unionist and feminist, I see social change movements as offering a history of courage and action on which to draw. As a white Australian born on Arrernte land, living and working on Kaurna land, I understand that colonisation and dispossession have devastated the landscape and ecology of this continent as well as its people, culture and law. Indigenous activism enlarges my understanding of what courage can really mean in the face of white supremacy as a global force. Indigenous wisdom offers ways forward from the damaging traditions in which I was raised. More...

Kapu Boethaynga Mura Buay (Good Morning everybody), I stand before you as a Torres Strait Island man, representing the Khoedal clan, the people of the Crocodile clan of Saibai Island, a low lying island a close distance from the shores of Papua New Guinea. More...

The momentum and need for a change in direction in tertiary education is felt every day in our community providers, polytechnics, universities, and wananga.
We feel it when we struggle to find a counsellor to help a suicidal student. More...

Yes, it is that time of the year again, but given the new mood of limiting needless carbon emissions, with Extinction Rebellion blocking the streets and demanding action, I used Skype for my annual chat with the irrepressible Cal D’Aria. As regular readers will know, Cal has only taken a decade to transform the former Tamworth Hairdressing College into the dynamic and internationally regarded Tam U. More...

It’s been an honour and privilege to participate at the 2019 National Council, the supreme decision-making body of the NTEU. It’s not a position I take lightly and I’m grateful to the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) members for giving me, through their votes, the opportunity to be part of a Council that meets to set the national policy direction of our Union. More...

This year’s Council was the first following the national leadership change 12 months ago. It took place against a backdrop of an increasingly bleak industrial and political landscape for the higher education sector and unions generally, following the surprise re-election of the Coalition Government in May. More...

Over 290 staff members, both casual and permanent staff, have signed a petition demanding that casuals in the Faculty of Arts be paid for their attendance at lectures. Tutors attending the lectures for the course that they are tutoring is crucial for teaching and it must be paid. More...