❓ The Minister for Education outlines initiatives to address teacher shortages, including increased pay, allowances for rural placements, and scholarships. He criticizes the federal government's lack of support and praises the opposition's proposals.
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TEACHER SHORTAGE - GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES 567. Mr P.W. ANDREWS to the Minister for Education and Training: Will the minister please outline to the house the latest groundbreaking state government initiatives aimed at solving the teacher shortage? Mr M. McGOWAN
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I thank the member for Southern River for the question. Indeed, the initiatives that I announced over the past 10 days or so are groundbreaking. We have announced unilaterally that we will increase the pay for graduate teachers by $3 500, without reference to any negotiations with the union. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr M. McGOWAN : That means that, at the start of next year, graduate teachers will be paid more than $50 000 and that will put graduates teachers in WA among the ranks of the highest paid in Australia. In addition to that, if they are prepared to go to certain areas throughout the state they will receive allowances of up to $20 000 in their first year out of university. There is more: on top of that, we announced a series of scholarships that are going to be available for people at university to apply for; indeed, 1 300 scholarships up to the value of $60 000 over one year if teachers are prepared to go to locations in which we need them. Both of these initiatives are about getting enough teachers into the workforce, encouraging university students to get into education and providing incentives to young people to teach in country Western Australia. We are offering the most generous initiatives in Australia to get teachers to teach in the country. We make no apologies for doing that because we believe that Western Australian students and teachers deserve a good deal. In addition, I have approached Julie Bishop on a number of occasions about a range of matters concerning what the commonwealth government can do to assist the situation of teachers in this state. All I have ever received from her is complete and utter negativity. All the commonwealth government ever does is incessantly and negatively run down the state education systems. It runs down the teaching workforce and comes up with whacky ideas about how teachers should be paid. The federal government’s ideas would result in a reduction of pay for teachers. That is not the way to go. The way to go is the way suggested by the federal opposition. I welcome a constructive relationship with the federal government on these major issues, but we have never had that type of relationship with Julie Bishop. I have had a constructive relationship with Andrew Robb, funnily enough, but Julie Bishop has offered no constructive suggestions and has not provided any positive assistance. If the federal opposition wins government, it will offer an opportunity for the state and commonwealth governments to work together on these significant issues. It has proposed a reduction in HECS for students who study maths and science and who want to become teachers. The initiatives that have been put forward by Mr Stephen Smith and Kevin Rudd would do the world of good for our education system and I look forward to implementing those initiatives in conjunction with them.
TEACHER SHORTAGE - GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES
Will the minister please outline to the house the latest groundbreaking state government initiatives aimed at solving the teacher shortage? Mr M. McGOWAN replied: I thank the member for Southern River for the question. Indeed, the initiatives that I announced over the past 10 days or so are groundbreaking. We have announced unilaterally that we will increase the pay for graduate teachers by $3 500, without reference to any negotiations with the union. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr M. McGOWAN : That means that, at the start of next year, graduate teachers will be paid more than $50 000 and that will put graduates teachers in WA among the ranks of the highest paid in Australia. In addition to that, if they are prepared to go to certain areas throughout the state they will receive allowances of up to $20 000 in their first year out of university. There is more: on top of that, we announced a series of scholarships that are going to be available for people at university to apply for; indeed, 1 300 scholarships up to the value of $60 000 over one year if teachers are prepared to go to locations in which we need them. Both of these initiatives are about getting enough teachers into the workforce, encouraging university students to get into education and providing incentives to young people to teach in country Western Australia. We are offering the most generous initiatives in Australia to get teachers to teach in the country. We make no apologies for doing that because we believe that Western Australian students and teachers deserve a good deal. In addition, I have approached Julie Bishop on a number of occasions about a range of matters concerning what the commonwealth government can do to assist the situation of teachers in this state. All I have ever received from her is complete and utter negativity. All the commonwealth government ever does is incessantly and negatively run down the state education systems. It runs down the teaching workforce and comes up with whacky ideas about how teachers should be paid. The federal government’s ideas would result in a reduction of pay for teachers. That is not the way to go. The way to go is the way suggested by the federal opposition. I welcome a constructive relationship with the federal government on these major issues, but we have never had that type of relationship with Julie Bishop. I have had a constructive relationship with Andrew Robb, funnily enough, but Julie Bishop has offered no constructive suggestions and has not provided any positive assistance. If the federal opposition wins government, it will offer an opportunity for the state and commonwealth governments to work together on these significant issues. It has proposed a reduction in HECS for students who study maths and science and who want to become teachers. The initiatives that have been put forward by Mr Stephen Smith and Kevin Rudd would do the world of good for our education system and I look forward to implementing those initiatives in conjunction with them.
Mr M. McGOWAN replied: I thank the member for Southern River for the question. Indeed, the initiatives that I announced over the past 10 days or so are groundbreaking. We have announced unilaterally that we will increase the pay for graduate teachers by $3 500, without reference to any negotiations with the union. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr M. McGOWAN : That means that, at the start of next year, graduate teachers will be paid more than $50 000 and that will put graduates teachers in WA among the ranks of the highest paid in Australia. In addition to that, if they are prepared to go to certain areas throughout the state they will receive allowances of up to $20 000 in their first year out of university. There is more: on top of that, we announced a series of scholarships that are going to be available for people at university to apply for; indeed, 1 300 scholarships up to the value of $60 000 over one year if teachers are prepared to go to locations in which we need them. Both of these initiatives are about getting enough teachers into the workforce, encouraging university students to get into education and providing incentives to young people to teach in country Western Australia. We are offering the most generous initiatives in Australia to get teachers to teach in the country. We make no apologies for doing that because we believe that Western Australian students and teachers deserve a good deal. In addition, I have approached Julie Bishop on a number of occasions about a range of matters concerning what the commonwealth government can do to assist the situation of teachers in this state. All I have ever received from her is complete and utter negativity. All the commonwealth government ever does is incessantly and negatively run down the state education systems. It runs down the teaching workforce and comes up with whacky ideas about how teachers should be paid. The federal government’s ideas would result in a reduction of pay for teachers. That is not the way to go. The way to go is the way suggested by the federal opposition. I welcome a constructive relationship with the federal government on these major issues, but we have never had that type of relationship with Julie Bishop. I have had a constructive relationship with Andrew Robb, funnily enough, but Julie Bishop has offered no constructive suggestions and has not provided any positive assistance. If the federal opposition wins government, it will offer an opportunity for the state and commonwealth governments to work together on these significant issues. It has proposed a reduction in HECS for students who study maths and science and who want to become teachers. The initiatives that have been put forward by Mr Stephen Smith and Kevin Rudd would do the world of good for our education system and I look forward to implementing those initiatives in conjunction with them.
I thank the member for Southern River for the question. Indeed, the initiatives that I announced over the past 10 days or so are groundbreaking. We have announced unilaterally that we will increase the pay for graduate teachers by $3 500, without reference to any negotiations with the union. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr M. McGOWAN : That means that, at the start of next year, graduate teachers will be paid more than $50 000 and that will put graduates teachers in WA among the ranks of the highest paid in Australia. In addition to that, if they are prepared to go to certain areas throughout the state they will receive allowances of up to $20 000 in their first year out of university. There is more: on top of that, we announced a series of scholarships that are going to be available for people at university to apply for; indeed, 1 300 scholarships up to the value of $60 000 over one year if teachers are prepared to go to locations in which we need them. Both of these initiatives are about getting enough teachers into the workforce, encouraging university students to get into education and providing incentives to young people to teach in country Western Australia. We are offering the most generous initiatives in Australia to get teachers to teach in the country. We make no apologies for doing that because we believe that Western Australian students and teachers deserve a good deal. In addition, I have approached Julie Bishop on a number of occasions about a range of matters concerning what the commonwealth government can do to assist the situation of teachers in this state. All I have ever received from her is complete and utter negativity. All the commonwealth government ever does is incessantly and negatively run down the state education systems. It runs down the teaching workforce and comes up with whacky ideas about how teachers should be paid. The federal government’s ideas would result in a reduction of pay for teachers. That is not the way to go. The way to go is the way suggested by the federal opposition. I welcome a constructive relationship with the federal government on these major issues, but we have never had that type of relationship with Julie Bishop. I have had a constructive relationship with Andrew Robb, funnily enough, but Julie Bishop has offered no constructive suggestions and has not provided any positive assistance. If the federal opposition wins government, it will offer an opportunity for the state and commonwealth governments to work together on these significant issues. It has proposed a reduction in HECS for students who study maths and science and who want to become teachers. The initiatives that have been put forward by Mr Stephen Smith and Kevin Rudd would do the world of good for our education system and I look forward to implementing those initiatives in conjunction with them.
Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr M. McGOWAN : That means that, at the start of next year, graduate teachers will be paid more than $50 000 and that will put graduates teachers in WA among the ranks of the highest paid in Australia. In addition to that, if they are prepared to go to certain areas throughout the state they will receive allowances of up to $20 000 in their first year out of university. There is more: on top of that, we announced a series of scholarships that are going to be available for people at university to apply for; indeed, 1 300 scholarships up to the value of $60 000 over one year if teachers are prepared to go to locations in which we need them. Both of these initiatives are about getting enough teachers into the workforce, encouraging university students to get into education and providing incentives to young people to teach in country Western Australia. We are offering the most generous initiatives in Australia to get teachers to teach in the country. We make no apologies for doing that because we believe that Western Australian students and teachers deserve a good deal. In addition, I have approached Julie Bishop on a number of occasions about a range of matters concerning what the commonwealth government can do to assist the situation of teachers in this state. All I have ever received from her is complete and utter negativity. All the commonwealth government ever does is incessantly and negatively run down the state education systems. It runs down the teaching workforce and comes up with whacky ideas about how teachers should be paid. The federal government’s ideas would result in a reduction of pay for teachers. That is not the way to go. The way to go is the way suggested by the federal opposition. I welcome a constructive relationship with the federal government on these major issues, but we have never had that type of relationship with Julie Bishop. I have had a constructive relationship with Andrew Robb, funnily enough, but Julie Bishop has offered no constructive suggestions and has not provided any positive assistance. If the federal opposition wins government, it will offer an opportunity for the state and commonwealth governments to work together on these significant issues. It has proposed a reduction in HECS for students who study maths and science and who want to become teachers. The initiatives that have been put forward by Mr Stephen Smith and Kevin Rudd would do the world of good for our education system and I look forward to implementing those initiatives in conjunction with them.
The SPEAKER : I call the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr M. McGOWAN : That means that, at the start of next year, graduate teachers will be paid more than $50 000 and that will put graduates teachers in WA among the ranks of the highest paid in Australia. In addition to that, if they are prepared to go to certain areas throughout the state they will receive allowances of up to $20 000 in their first year out of university. There is more: on top of that, we announced a series of scholarships that are going to be available for people at university to apply for; indeed, 1 300 scholarships up to the value of $60 000 over one year if teachers are prepared to go to locations in which we need them. Both of these initiatives are about getting enough teachers into the workforce, encouraging university students to get into education and providing incentives to young people to teach in country Western Australia. We are offering the most generous initiatives in Australia to get teachers to teach in the country. We make no apologies for doing that because we believe that Western Australian students and teachers deserve a good deal. In addition, I have approached Julie Bishop on a number of occasions about a range of matters concerning what the commonwealth government can do to assist the situation of teachers in this state. All I have ever received from her is complete and utter negativity. All the commonwealth government ever does is incessantly and negatively run down the state education systems. It runs down the teaching workforce and comes up with whacky ideas about how teachers should be paid. The federal government’s ideas would result in a reduction of pay for teachers. That is not the way to go. The way to go is the way suggested by the federal opposition. I welcome a constructive relationship with the federal government on these major issues, but we have never had that type of relationship with Julie Bishop. I have had a constructive relationship with Andrew Robb, funnily enough, but Julie Bishop has offered no constructive suggestions and has not provided any positive assistance. If the federal opposition wins government, it will offer an opportunity for the state and commonwealth governments to work together on these significant issues. It has proposed a reduction in HECS for students who study maths and science and who want to become teachers. The initiatives that have been put forward by Mr Stephen Smith and Kevin Rudd would do the world of good for our education system and I look forward to implementing those initiatives in conjunction with them.
Mr M. McGOWAN : That means that, at the start of next year, graduate teachers will be paid more than $50 000 and that will put graduates teachers in WA among the ranks of the highest paid in Australia. In addition to that, if they are prepared to go to certain areas throughout the state they will receive allowances of up to $20 000 in their first year out of university. There is more: on top of that, we announced a series of scholarships that are going to be available for people at university to apply for; indeed, 1 300 scholarships up to the value of $60 000 over one year if teachers are prepared to go to locations in which we need them. Both of these initiatives are about getting enough teachers into the workforce, encouraging university students to get into education and providing incentives to young people to teach in country Western Australia. We are offering the most generous initiatives in Australia to get teachers to teach in the country. We make no apologies for doing that because we believe that Western Australian students and teachers deserve a good deal. In addition, I have approached Julie Bishop on a number of occasions about a range of matters concerning what the commonwealth government can do to assist the situation of teachers in this state. All I have ever received from her is complete and utter negativity. All the commonwealth government ever does is incessantly and negatively run down the state education systems. It runs down the teaching workforce and comes up with whacky ideas about how teachers should be paid. The federal government’s ideas would result in a reduction of pay for teachers. That is not the way to go. The way to go is the way suggested by the federal opposition. I welcome a constructive relationship with the federal government on these major issues, but we have never had that type of relationship with Julie Bishop. I have had a constructive relationship with Andrew Robb, funnily enough, but Julie Bishop has offered no constructive suggestions and has not provided any positive assistance. If the federal opposition wins government, it will offer an opportunity for the state and commonwealth governments to work together on these significant issues. It has proposed a reduction in HECS for students who study maths and science and who want to become teachers. The initiatives that have been put forward by Mr Stephen Smith and Kevin Rudd would do the world of good for our education system and I look forward to implementing those initiatives in conjunction with them.
Both of these initiatives are about getting enough teachers into the workforce, encouraging university students to get into education and providing incentives to young people to teach in country Western Australia. We are offering the most generous initiatives in Australia to get teachers to teach in the country. We make no apologies for doing that because we believe that Western Australian students and teachers deserve a good deal. In addition, I have approached Julie Bishop on a number of occasions about a range of matters concerning what the commonwealth government can do to assist the situation of teachers in this state. All I have ever received from her is complete and utter negativity. All the commonwealth government ever does is incessantly and negatively run down the state education systems. It runs down the teaching workforce and comes up with whacky ideas about how teachers should be paid. The federal government’s ideas would result in a reduction of pay for teachers. That is not the way to go. The way to go is the way suggested by the federal opposition. I welcome a constructive relationship with the federal government on these major issues, but we have never had that type of relationship with Julie Bishop. I have had a constructive relationship with Andrew Robb, funnily enough, but Julie Bishop has offered no constructive suggestions and has not provided any positive assistance. If the federal opposition wins government, it will offer an opportunity for the state and commonwealth governments to work together on these significant issues. It has proposed a reduction in HECS for students who study maths and science and who want to become teachers. The initiatives that have been put forward by Mr Stephen Smith and Kevin Rudd would do the world of good for our education system and I look forward to implementing those initiatives in conjunction with them.
In addition, I have approached Julie Bishop on a number of occasions about a range of matters concerning what the commonwealth government can do to assist the situation of teachers in this state. All I have ever received from her is complete and utter negativity. All the commonwealth government ever does is incessantly and negatively run down the state education systems. It runs down the teaching workforce and comes up with whacky ideas about how teachers should be paid. The federal government’s ideas would result in a reduction of pay for teachers. That is not the way to go. The way to go is the way suggested by the federal opposition. I welcome a constructive relationship with the federal government on these major issues, but we have never had that type of relationship with Julie Bishop. I have had a constructive relationship with Andrew Robb, funnily enough, but Julie Bishop has offered no constructive suggestions and has not provided any positive assistance. If the federal opposition wins government, it will offer an opportunity for the state and commonwealth governments to work together on these significant issues. It has proposed a reduction in HECS for students who study maths and science and who want to become teachers. The initiatives that have been put forward by Mr Stephen Smith and Kevin Rudd would do the world of good for our education system and I look forward to implementing those initiatives in conjunction with them.
TEACHER SHORTAGE - GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES
Will the minister please outline to the house the latest groundbreaking state government initiatives aimed at solving the teacher shortage? Mr M. McGOWAN replied: I thank the member for Southern River for the question. Indeed, the initiatives that I announced over the past 10 days or so are groundbreaking. We have announced unilaterally that we will increase the pay for graduate teachers by $3 500, without reference to any negotiations with the union. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr M. McGOWAN : That means that, at the start of next year, graduate teachers will be paid more than $50 000 and that will put graduates teachers in WA among the ranks of the highest paid in Australia. In addition to that, if they are prepared to go to certain areas throughout the state they will receive allowances of up to $20 000 in their first year out of university. There is more: on top of that, we announced a series of scholarships that are going to be available for people at university to apply for; indeed, 1 300 scholarships up to the value of $60 000 over one year if teachers are prepared to go to locations in which we need them. Both of these initiatives are about getting enough teachers into the workforce, encouraging university students to get into education and providing incentives to young people to teach in country Western Australia. We are offering the most generous initiatives in Australia to get teachers to teach in the country. We make no apologies for doing that because we believe that Western Australian students and teachers deserve a good deal. In addition, I have approached Julie Bishop on a number of occasions about a range of matters concerning what the commonwealth government can do to assist the situation of teachers in this state. All I have ever received from her is complete and utter negativity. All the commonwealth government ever does is incessantly and negatively run down the state education systems. It runs down the teaching workforce and comes up with whacky ideas about how teachers should be paid. The federal government’s ideas would result in a reduction of pay for teachers. That is not the way to go. The way to go is the way suggested by the federal opposition. I welcome a constructive relationship with the federal government on these major issues, but we have never had that type of relationship with Julie Bishop. I have had a constructive relationship with Andrew Robb, funnily enough, but Julie Bishop has offered no constructive suggestions and has not provided any positive assistance. If the federal opposition wins government, it will offer an opportunity for the state and commonwealth governments to work together on these significant issues. It has proposed a reduction in HECS for students who study maths and science and who want to become teachers. The initiatives that have been put forward by Mr Stephen Smith and Kevin Rudd would do the world of good for our education system and I look forward to implementing those initiatives in conjunction with them.
Mr M. McGOWAN replied: I thank the member for Southern River for the question. Indeed, the initiatives that I announced over the past 10 days or so are groundbreaking. We have announced unilaterally that we will increase the pay for graduate teachers by $3 500, without reference to any negotiations with the union. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr M. McGOWAN : That means that, at the start of next year, graduate teachers will be paid more than $50 000 and that will put graduates teachers in WA among the ranks of the highest paid in Australia. In addition to that, if they are prepared to go to certain areas throughout the state they will receive allowances of up to $20 000 in their first year out of university. There is more: on top of that, we announced a series of scholarships that are going to be available for people at university to apply for; indeed, 1 300 scholarships up to the value of $60 000 over one year if teachers are prepared to go to locations in which we need them. Both of these initiatives are about getting enough teachers into the workforce, encouraging university students to get into education and providing incentives to young people to teach in country Western Australia. We are offering the most generous initiatives in Australia to get teachers to teach in the country. We make no apologies for doing that because we believe that Western Australian students and teachers deserve a good deal. In addition, I have approached Julie Bishop on a number of occasions about a range of matters concerning what the commonwealth government can do to assist the situation of teachers in this state. All I have ever received from her is complete and utter negativity. All the commonwealth government ever does is incessantly and negatively run down the state education systems. It runs down the teaching workforce and comes up with whacky ideas about how teachers should be paid. The federal government’s ideas would result in a reduction of pay for teachers. That is not the way to go. The way to go is the way suggested by the federal opposition. I welcome a constructive relationship with the federal government on these major issues, but we have never had that type of relationship with Julie Bishop. I have had a constructive relationship with Andrew Robb, funnily enough, but Julie Bishop has offered no constructive suggestions and has not provided any positive assistance. If the federal opposition wins government, it will offer an opportunity for the state and commonwealth governments to work together on these significant issues. It has proposed a reduction in HECS for students who study maths and science and who want to become teachers. The initiatives that have been put forward by Mr Stephen Smith and Kevin Rudd would do the world of good for our education system and I look forward to implementing those initiatives in conjunction with them.
I thank the member for Southern River for the question. Indeed, the initiatives that I announced over the past 10 days or so are groundbreaking. We have announced unilaterally that we will increase the pay for graduate teachers by $3 500, without reference to any negotiations with the union. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr M. McGOWAN : That means that, at the start of next year, graduate teachers will be paid more than $50 000 and that will put graduates teachers in WA among the ranks of the highest paid in Australia. In addition to that, if they are prepared to go to certain areas throughout the state they will receive allowances of up to $20 000 in their first year out of university. There is more: on top of that, we announced a series of scholarships that are going to be available for people at university to apply for; indeed, 1 300 scholarships up to the value of $60 000 over one year if teachers are prepared to go to locations in which we need them. Both of these initiatives are about getting enough teachers into the workforce, encouraging university students to get into education and providing incentives to young people to teach in country Western Australia. We are offering the most generous initiatives in Australia to get teachers to teach in the country. We make no apologies for doing that because we believe that Western Australian students and teachers deserve a good deal. In addition, I have approached Julie Bishop on a number of occasions about a range of matters concerning what the commonwealth government can do to assist the situation of teachers in this state. All I have ever received from her is complete and utter negativity. All the commonwealth government ever does is incessantly and negatively run down the state education systems. It runs down the teaching workforce and comes up with whacky ideas about how teachers should be paid. The federal government’s ideas would result in a reduction of pay for teachers. That is not the way to go. The way to go is the way suggested by the federal opposition. I welcome a constructive relationship with the federal government on these major issues, but we have never had that type of relationship with Julie Bishop. I have had a constructive relationship with Andrew Robb, funnily enough, but Julie Bishop has offered no constructive suggestions and has not provided any positive assistance. If the federal opposition wins government, it will offer an opportunity for the state and commonwealth governments to work together on these significant issues. It has proposed a reduction in HECS for students who study maths and science and who want to become teachers. The initiatives that have been put forward by Mr Stephen Smith and Kevin Rudd would do the world of good for our education system and I look forward to implementing those initiatives in conjunction with them.
Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr M. McGOWAN : That means that, at the start of next year, graduate teachers will be paid more than $50 000 and that will put graduates teachers in WA among the ranks of the highest paid in Australia. In addition to that, if they are prepared to go to certain areas throughout the state they will receive allowances of up to $20 000 in their first year out of university. There is more: on top of that, we announced a series of scholarships that are going to be available for people at university to apply for; indeed, 1 300 scholarships up to the value of $60 000 over one year if teachers are prepared to go to locations in which we need them. Both of these initiatives are about getting enough teachers into the workforce, encouraging university students to get into education and providing incentives to young people to teach in country Western Australia. We are offering the most generous initiatives in Australia to get teachers to teach in the country. We make no apologies for doing that because we believe that Western Australian students and teachers deserve a good deal. In addition, I have approached Julie Bishop on a number of occasions about a range of matters concerning what the commonwealth government can do to assist the situation of teachers in this state. All I have ever received from her is complete and utter negativity. All the commonwealth government ever does is incessantly and negatively run down the state education systems. It runs down the teaching workforce and comes up with whacky ideas about how teachers should be paid. The federal government’s ideas would result in a reduction of pay for teachers. That is not the way to go. The way to go is the way suggested by the federal opposition. I welcome a constructive relationship with the federal government on these major issues, but we have never had that type of relationship with Julie Bishop. I have had a constructive relationship with Andrew Robb, funnily enough, but Julie Bishop has offered no constructive suggestions and has not provided any positive assistance. If the federal opposition wins government, it will offer an opportunity for the state and commonwealth governments to work together on these significant issues. It has proposed a reduction in HECS for students who study maths and science and who want to become teachers. The initiatives that have been put forward by Mr Stephen Smith and Kevin Rudd would do the world of good for our education system and I look forward to implementing those initiatives in conjunction with them.
The SPEAKER : I call the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr M. McGOWAN : That means that, at the start of next year, graduate teachers will be paid more than $50 000 and that will put graduates teachers in WA among the ranks of the highest paid in Australia. In addition to that, if they are prepared to go to certain areas throughout the state they will receive allowances of up to $20 000 in their first year out of university. There is more: on top of that, we announced a series of scholarships that are going to be available for people at university to apply for; indeed, 1 300 scholarships up to the value of $60 000 over one year if teachers are prepared to go to locations in which we need them. Both of these initiatives are about getting enough teachers into the workforce, encouraging university students to get into education and providing incentives to young people to teach in country Western Australia. We are offering the most generous initiatives in Australia to get teachers to teach in the country. We make no apologies for doing that because we believe that Western Australian students and teachers deserve a good deal. In addition, I have approached Julie Bishop on a number of occasions about a range of matters concerning what the commonwealth government can do to assist the situation of teachers in this state. All I have ever received from her is complete and utter negativity. All the commonwealth government ever does is incessantly and negatively run down the state education systems. It runs down the teaching workforce and comes up with whacky ideas about how teachers should be paid. The federal government’s ideas would result in a reduction of pay for teachers. That is not the way to go. The way to go is the way suggested by the federal opposition. I welcome a constructive relationship with the federal government on these major issues, but we have never had that type of relationship with Julie Bishop. I have had a constructive relationship with Andrew Robb, funnily enough, but Julie Bishop has offered no constructive suggestions and has not provided any positive assistance. If the federal opposition wins government, it will offer an opportunity for the state and commonwealth governments to work together on these significant issues. It has proposed a reduction in HECS for students who study maths and science and who want to become teachers. The initiatives that have been put forward by Mr Stephen Smith and Kevin Rudd would do the world of good for our education system and I look forward to implementing those initiatives in conjunction with them.
Mr M. McGOWAN : That means that, at the start of next year, graduate teachers will be paid more than $50 000 and that will put graduates teachers in WA among the ranks of the highest paid in Australia. In addition to that, if they are prepared to go to certain areas throughout the state they will receive allowances of up to $20 000 in their first year out of university. There is more: on top of that, we announced a series of scholarships that are going to be available for people at university to apply for; indeed, 1 300 scholarships up to the value of $60 000 over one year if teachers are prepared to go to locations in which we need them. Both of these initiatives are about getting enough teachers into the workforce, encouraging university students to get into education and providing incentives to young people to teach in country Western Australia. We are offering the most generous initiatives in Australia to get teachers to teach in the country. We make no apologies for doing that because we believe that Western Australian students and teachers deserve a good deal. In addition, I have approached Julie Bishop on a number of occasions about a range of matters concerning what the commonwealth government can do to assist the situation of teachers in this state. All I have ever received from her is complete and utter negativity. All the commonwealth government ever does is incessantly and negatively run down the state education systems. It runs down the teaching workforce and comes up with whacky ideas about how teachers should be paid. The federal government’s ideas would result in a reduction of pay for teachers. That is not the way to go. The way to go is the way suggested by the federal opposition. I welcome a constructive relationship with the federal government on these major issues, but we have never had that type of relationship with Julie Bishop. I have had a constructive relationship with Andrew Robb, funnily enough, but Julie Bishop has offered no constructive suggestions and has not provided any positive assistance. If the federal opposition wins government, it will offer an opportunity for the state and commonwealth governments to work together on these significant issues. It has proposed a reduction in HECS for students who study maths and science and who want to become teachers. The initiatives that have been put forward by Mr Stephen Smith and Kevin Rudd would do the world of good for our education system and I look forward to implementing those initiatives in conjunction with them.
Both of these initiatives are about getting enough teachers into the workforce, encouraging university students to get into education and providing incentives to young people to teach in country Western Australia. We are offering the most generous initiatives in Australia to get teachers to teach in the country. We make no apologies for doing that because we believe that Western Australian students and teachers deserve a good deal. In addition, I have approached Julie Bishop on a number of occasions about a range of matters concerning what the commonwealth government can do to assist the situation of teachers in this state. All I have ever received from her is complete and utter negativity. All the commonwealth government ever does is incessantly and negatively run down the state education systems. It runs down the teaching workforce and comes up with whacky ideas about how teachers should be paid. The federal government’s ideas would result in a reduction of pay for teachers. That is not the way to go. The way to go is the way suggested by the federal opposition. I welcome a constructive relationship with the federal government on these major issues, but we have never had that type of relationship with Julie Bishop. I have had a constructive relationship with Andrew Robb, funnily enough, but Julie Bishop has offered no constructive suggestions and has not provided any positive assistance. If the federal opposition wins government, it will offer an opportunity for the state and commonwealth governments to work together on these significant issues. It has proposed a reduction in HECS for students who study maths and science and who want to become teachers. The initiatives that have been put forward by Mr Stephen Smith and Kevin Rudd would do the world of good for our education system and I look forward to implementing those initiatives in conjunction with them.
In addition, I have approached Julie Bishop on a number of occasions about a range of matters concerning what the commonwealth government can do to assist the situation of teachers in this state. All I have ever received from her is complete and utter negativity. All the commonwealth government ever does is incessantly and negatively run down the state education systems. It runs down the teaching workforce and comes up with whacky ideas about how teachers should be paid. The federal government’s ideas would result in a reduction of pay for teachers. That is not the way to go. The way to go is the way suggested by the federal opposition. I welcome a constructive relationship with the federal government on these major issues, but we have never had that type of relationship with Julie Bishop. I have had a constructive relationship with Andrew Robb, funnily enough, but Julie Bishop has offered no constructive suggestions and has not provided any positive assistance. If the federal opposition wins government, it will offer an opportunity for the state and commonwealth governments to work together on these significant issues. It has proposed a reduction in HECS for students who study maths and science and who want to become teachers. The initiatives that have been put forward by Mr Stephen Smith and Kevin Rudd would do the world of good for our education system and I look forward to implementing those initiatives in conjunction with them.
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