❓ A WA parliament question on notice regarding a teacher's strike, the Minister's handling of the situation, and the safety of students. The Minister defends the government's actions and accuses the opposition of encouraging the strike.
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TEACHERS’ STRIKE
I refer to the fact that teachers will be striking for half a day tomorrow. (1) Will the minister concede that this issue has been abysmally managed by him and his government, resulting in significant uncertainty and inconvenience to students and parents? (2) Why has the department done a backflip on the minister’s original directive that parents should send their children to school, now leaving it to individual principals to decide whether to close schools? (3) Will the minister guarantee that all children who go to school tomorrow will be properly supervised? Mr M. McGOWAN
I refer to the fact that teachers will be striking for half a day tomorrow. (1) Will the minister concede that this issue has been abysmally managed by him and his government, resulting in significant uncertainty and inconvenience to students and parents? (2) Why has the department done a backflip on the minister’s original directive that parents should send their children to school, now leaving it to individual principals to decide whether to close schools? (3) Will the minister guarantee that all children who go to school tomorrow will be properly supervised? Mr M. McGOWAN
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(1)-(3) I thank the member for Darling Range for the question, which involves a very serious matter. We took the State School Teachers’ Union of Western Australia to the Industrial Relations Commission earlier in the week. The Industrial Relations Commission provided an order yesterday morning in which the commissioner directed that no strike action be taken. She also directed that the union comply with that and direct its members to comply with that. The department then made time available yesterday for the union executive to meet in order to issue those directives. The union decided not to meet yesterday; it decided that it would meet this morning. It came out at 12.30 this afternoon and said that it will ignore the direction of the Industrial Relations Commission and hold its strike tomorrow in any event, despite the Industrial Relations Commission’s order. I am very disappointed in the State School Teachers’ Union’s executive for providing that directive to the workforce. The State School Teachers’ Union’s executive should have complied with what the Industrial Relations Commission directed. We have been through a process with the State School Teachers’ Union’s executive to try to reach an agreement on this matter. We want to pay teachers well. It is a little known fact that under an offer that we put to the State School Teachers’ Union, an ordinary classroom teacher would be paid $84 300 a year. In tougher-to-staff schools in the country or in parts of the metropolitan area, additional allowances up to $20 000 would be available. Under that offer, teachers would be amongst the very best paid in the country—that is, in most cases, because obviously various locations and levels need to be considered. We are prepared to continue negotiations with the teachers’ union; however, its industrial action does not make it easy. We are now directing principals to decide what should happen in individual schools. In some schools very few staff will go on strike and in others a lot of staff will go on strike. We are leaving it to individual schools to decide that and we have faith in the principals that they will be able to decide that matter as appropriate. I want to raise one thing; that is, the shadow Minister for Education and Training has been encouraging the school teachers’ union to take this strike action. I will read from the transcript of what he said on Monday — Our teachers are an inherently conservative group and they don’t take industrial action unless they deem it absolutely necessary, and I feel that they’ve reached that precipice. The Liberal Party has been encouraging the teachers’ union to take strike action tomorrow and members opposite should be ashamed of themselves.
(1) Will the minister concede that this issue has been abysmally managed by him and his government, resulting in significant uncertainty and inconvenience to students and parents? (2) Why has the department done a backflip on the minister’s original directive that parents should send their children to school, now leaving it to individual principals to decide whether to close schools? (3) Will the minister guarantee that all children who go to school tomorrow will be properly supervised? Mr M. McGOWAN replied: (1)-(3) I thank the member for Darling Range for the question, which involves a very serious matter. We took the State School Teachers’ Union of Western Australia to the Industrial Relations Commission earlier in the week. The Industrial Relations Commission provided an order yesterday morning in which the commissioner directed that no strike action be taken. She also directed that the union comply with that and direct its members to comply with that. The department then made time available yesterday for the union executive to meet in order to issue those directives. The union decided not to meet yesterday; it decided that it would meet this morning. It came out at 12.30 this afternoon and said that it will ignore the direction of the Industrial Relations Commission and hold its strike tomorrow in any event, despite the Industrial Relations Commission’s order. I am very disappointed in the State School Teachers’ Union’s executive for providing that directive to the workforce. The State School Teachers’ Union’s executive should have complied with what the Industrial Relations Commission directed. We have been through a process with the State School Teachers’ Union’s executive to try to reach an agreement on this matter. We want to pay teachers well. It is a little known fact that under an offer that we put to the State School Teachers’ Union, an ordinary classroom teacher would be paid $84 300 a year. In tougher-to-staff schools in the country or in parts of the metropolitan area, additional allowances up to $20 000 would be available. Under that offer, teachers would be amongst the very best paid in the country—that is, in most cases, because obviously various locations and levels need to be considered. We are prepared to continue negotiations with the teachers’ union; however, its industrial action does not make it easy. We are now directing principals to decide what should happen in individual schools. In some schools very few staff will go on strike and in others a lot of staff will go on strike. We are leaving it to individual schools to decide that and we have faith in the principals that they will be able to decide that matter as appropriate. I want to raise one thing; that is, the shadow Minister for Education and Training has been encouraging the school teachers’ union to take this strike action. I will read from the transcript of what he said on Monday — Our teachers are an inherently conservative group and they don’t take industrial action unless they deem it absolutely necessary, and I feel that they’ve reached that precipice. The Liberal Party has been encouraging the teachers’ union to take strike action tomorrow and members opposite should be ashamed of themselves.
(2) Why has the department done a backflip on the minister’s original directive that parents should send their children to school, now leaving it to individual principals to decide whether to close schools? (3) Will the minister guarantee that all children who go to school tomorrow will be properly supervised? Mr M. McGOWAN replied: (1)-(3) I thank the member for Darling Range for the question, which involves a very serious matter. We took the State School Teachers’ Union of Western Australia to the Industrial Relations Commission earlier in the week. The Industrial Relations Commission provided an order yesterday morning in which the commissioner directed that no strike action be taken. She also directed that the union comply with that and direct its members to comply with that. The department then made time available yesterday for the union executive to meet in order to issue those directives. The union decided not to meet yesterday; it decided that it would meet this morning. It came out at 12.30 this afternoon and said that it will ignore the direction of the Industrial Relations Commission and hold its strike tomorrow in any event, despite the Industrial Relations Commission’s order. I am very disappointed in the State School Teachers’ Union’s executive for providing that directive to the workforce. The State School Teachers’ Union’s executive should have complied with what the Industrial Relations Commission directed. We have been through a process with the State School Teachers’ Union’s executive to try to reach an agreement on this matter. We want to pay teachers well. It is a little known fact that under an offer that we put to the State School Teachers’ Union, an ordinary classroom teacher would be paid $84 300 a year. In tougher-to-staff schools in the country or in parts of the metropolitan area, additional allowances up to $20 000 would be available. Under that offer, teachers would be amongst the very best paid in the country—that is, in most cases, because obviously various locations and levels need to be considered. We are prepared to continue negotiations with the teachers’ union; however, its industrial action does not make it easy. We are now directing principals to decide what should happen in individual schools. In some schools very few staff will go on strike and in others a lot of staff will go on strike. We are leaving it to individual schools to decide that and we have faith in the principals that they will be able to decide that matter as appropriate. I want to raise one thing; that is, the shadow Minister for Education and Training has been encouraging the school teachers’ union to take this strike action. I will read from the transcript of what he said on Monday — Our teachers are an inherently conservative group and they don’t take industrial action unless they deem it absolutely necessary, and I feel that they’ve reached that precipice. The Liberal Party has been encouraging the teachers’ union to take strike action tomorrow and members opposite should be ashamed of themselves.
(3) Will the minister guarantee that all children who go to school tomorrow will be properly supervised? Mr M. McGOWAN replied: (1)-(3) I thank the member for Darling Range for the question, which involves a very serious matter. We took the State School Teachers’ Union of Western Australia to the Industrial Relations Commission earlier in the week. The Industrial Relations Commission provided an order yesterday morning in which the commissioner directed that no strike action be taken. She also directed that the union comply with that and direct its members to comply with that. The department then made time available yesterday for the union executive to meet in order to issue those directives. The union decided not to meet yesterday; it decided that it would meet this morning. It came out at 12.30 this afternoon and said that it will ignore the direction of the Industrial Relations Commission and hold its strike tomorrow in any event, despite the Industrial Relations Commission’s order. I am very disappointed in the State School Teachers’ Union’s executive for providing that directive to the workforce. The State School Teachers’ Union’s executive should have complied with what the Industrial Relations Commission directed. We have been through a process with the State School Teachers’ Union’s executive to try to reach an agreement on this matter. We want to pay teachers well. It is a little known fact that under an offer that we put to the State School Teachers’ Union, an ordinary classroom teacher would be paid $84 300 a year. In tougher-to-staff schools in the country or in parts of the metropolitan area, additional allowances up to $20 000 would be available. Under that offer, teachers would be amongst the very best paid in the country—that is, in most cases, because obviously various locations and levels need to be considered. We are prepared to continue negotiations with the teachers’ union; however, its industrial action does not make it easy. We are now directing principals to decide what should happen in individual schools. In some schools very few staff will go on strike and in others a lot of staff will go on strike. We are leaving it to individual schools to decide that and we have faith in the principals that they will be able to decide that matter as appropriate. I want to raise one thing; that is, the shadow Minister for Education and Training has been encouraging the school teachers’ union to take this strike action. I will read from the transcript of what he said on Monday — Our teachers are an inherently conservative group and they don’t take industrial action unless they deem it absolutely necessary, and I feel that they’ve reached that precipice. The Liberal Party has been encouraging the teachers’ union to take strike action tomorrow and members opposite should be ashamed of themselves.
Mr M. McGOWAN replied: (1)-(3) I thank the member for Darling Range for the question, which involves a very serious matter. We took the State School Teachers’ Union of Western Australia to the Industrial Relations Commission earlier in the week. The Industrial Relations Commission provided an order yesterday morning in which the commissioner directed that no strike action be taken. She also directed that the union comply with that and direct its members to comply with that. The department then made time available yesterday for the union executive to meet in order to issue those directives. The union decided not to meet yesterday; it decided that it would meet this morning. It came out at 12.30 this afternoon and said that it will ignore the direction of the Industrial Relations Commission and hold its strike tomorrow in any event, despite the Industrial Relations Commission’s order. I am very disappointed in the State School Teachers’ Union’s executive for providing that directive to the workforce. The State School Teachers’ Union’s executive should have complied with what the Industrial Relations Commission directed. We have been through a process with the State School Teachers’ Union’s executive to try to reach an agreement on this matter. We want to pay teachers well. It is a little known fact that under an offer that we put to the State School Teachers’ Union, an ordinary classroom teacher would be paid $84 300 a year. In tougher-to-staff schools in the country or in parts of the metropolitan area, additional allowances up to $20 000 would be available. Under that offer, teachers would be amongst the very best paid in the country—that is, in most cases, because obviously various locations and levels need to be considered. We are prepared to continue negotiations with the teachers’ union; however, its industrial action does not make it easy. We are now directing principals to decide what should happen in individual schools. In some schools very few staff will go on strike and in others a lot of staff will go on strike. We are leaving it to individual schools to decide that and we have faith in the principals that they will be able to decide that matter as appropriate. I want to raise one thing; that is, the shadow Minister for Education and Training has been encouraging the school teachers’ union to take this strike action. I will read from the transcript of what he said on Monday — Our teachers are an inherently conservative group and they don’t take industrial action unless they deem it absolutely necessary, and I feel that they’ve reached that precipice. The Liberal Party has been encouraging the teachers’ union to take strike action tomorrow and members opposite should be ashamed of themselves.
(1)-(3) I thank the member for Darling Range for the question, which involves a very serious matter. We took the State School Teachers’ Union of Western Australia to the Industrial Relations Commission earlier in the week. The Industrial Relations Commission provided an order yesterday morning in which the commissioner directed that no strike action be taken. She also directed that the union comply with that and direct its members to comply with that. The department then made time available yesterday for the union executive to meet in order to issue those directives. The union decided not to meet yesterday; it decided that it would meet this morning. It came out at 12.30 this afternoon and said that it will ignore the direction of the Industrial Relations Commission and hold its strike tomorrow in any event, despite the Industrial Relations Commission’s order. I am very disappointed in the State School Teachers’ Union’s executive for providing that directive to the workforce. The State School Teachers’ Union’s executive should have complied with what the Industrial Relations Commission directed. We have been through a process with the State School Teachers’ Union’s executive to try to reach an agreement on this matter. We want to pay teachers well. It is a little known fact that under an offer that we put to the State School Teachers’ Union, an ordinary classroom teacher would be paid $84 300 a year. In tougher-to-staff schools in the country or in parts of the metropolitan area, additional allowances up to $20 000 would be available. Under that offer, teachers would be amongst the very best paid in the country—that is, in most cases, because obviously various locations and levels need to be considered. We are prepared to continue negotiations with the teachers’ union; however, its industrial action does not make it easy. We are now directing principals to decide what should happen in individual schools. In some schools very few staff will go on strike and in others a lot of staff will go on strike. We are leaving it to individual schools to decide that and we have faith in the principals that they will be able to decide that matter as appropriate. I want to raise one thing; that is, the shadow Minister for Education and Training has been encouraging the school teachers’ union to take this strike action. I will read from the transcript of what he said on Monday — Our teachers are an inherently conservative group and they don’t take industrial action unless they deem it absolutely necessary, and I feel that they’ve reached that precipice. The Liberal Party has been encouraging the teachers’ union to take strike action tomorrow and members opposite should be ashamed of themselves.
We are now directing principals to decide what should happen in individual schools. In some schools very few staff will go on strike and in others a lot of staff will go on strike. We are leaving it to individual schools to decide that and we have faith in the principals that they will be able to decide that matter as appropriate. I want to raise one thing; that is, the shadow Minister for Education and Training has been encouraging the school teachers’ union to take this strike action. I will read from the transcript of what he said on Monday — Our teachers are an inherently conservative group and they don’t take industrial action unless they deem it absolutely necessary, and I feel that they’ve reached that precipice. The Liberal Party has been encouraging the teachers’ union to take strike action tomorrow and members opposite should be ashamed of themselves.
I want to raise one thing; that is, the shadow Minister for Education and Training has been encouraging the school teachers’ union to take this strike action. I will read from the transcript of what he said on Monday — Our teachers are an inherently conservative group and they don’t take industrial action unless they deem it absolutely necessary, and I feel that they’ve reached that precipice. The Liberal Party has been encouraging the teachers’ union to take strike action tomorrow and members opposite should be ashamed of themselves.
(1) Will the minister concede that this issue has been abysmally managed by him and his government, resulting in significant uncertainty and inconvenience to students and parents? (2) Why has the department done a backflip on the minister’s original directive that parents should send their children to school, now leaving it to individual principals to decide whether to close schools? (3) Will the minister guarantee that all children who go to school tomorrow will be properly supervised? Mr M. McGOWAN replied: (1)-(3) I thank the member for Darling Range for the question, which involves a very serious matter. We took the State School Teachers’ Union of Western Australia to the Industrial Relations Commission earlier in the week. The Industrial Relations Commission provided an order yesterday morning in which the commissioner directed that no strike action be taken. She also directed that the union comply with that and direct its members to comply with that. The department then made time available yesterday for the union executive to meet in order to issue those directives. The union decided not to meet yesterday; it decided that it would meet this morning. It came out at 12.30 this afternoon and said that it will ignore the direction of the Industrial Relations Commission and hold its strike tomorrow in any event, despite the Industrial Relations Commission’s order. I am very disappointed in the State School Teachers’ Union’s executive for providing that directive to the workforce. The State School Teachers’ Union’s executive should have complied with what the Industrial Relations Commission directed. We have been through a process with the State School Teachers’ Union’s executive to try to reach an agreement on this matter. We want to pay teachers well. It is a little known fact that under an offer that we put to the State School Teachers’ Union, an ordinary classroom teacher would be paid $84 300 a year. In tougher-to-staff schools in the country or in parts of the metropolitan area, additional allowances up to $20 000 would be available. Under that offer, teachers would be amongst the very best paid in the country—that is, in most cases, because obviously various locations and levels need to be considered. We are prepared to continue negotiations with the teachers’ union; however, its industrial action does not make it easy. We are now directing principals to decide what should happen in individual schools. In some schools very few staff will go on strike and in others a lot of staff will go on strike. We are leaving it to individual schools to decide that and we have faith in the principals that they will be able to decide that matter as appropriate. I want to raise one thing; that is, the shadow Minister for Education and Training has been encouraging the school teachers’ union to take this strike action. I will read from the transcript of what he said on Monday — Our teachers are an inherently conservative group and they don’t take industrial action unless they deem it absolutely necessary, and I feel that they’ve reached that precipice. The Liberal Party has been encouraging the teachers’ union to take strike action tomorrow and members opposite should be ashamed of themselves.
(2) Why has the department done a backflip on the minister’s original directive that parents should send their children to school, now leaving it to individual principals to decide whether to close schools? (3) Will the minister guarantee that all children who go to school tomorrow will be properly supervised? Mr M. McGOWAN replied: (1)-(3) I thank the member for Darling Range for the question, which involves a very serious matter. We took the State School Teachers’ Union of Western Australia to the Industrial Relations Commission earlier in the week. The Industrial Relations Commission provided an order yesterday morning in which the commissioner directed that no strike action be taken. She also directed that the union comply with that and direct its members to comply with that. The department then made time available yesterday for the union executive to meet in order to issue those directives. The union decided not to meet yesterday; it decided that it would meet this morning. It came out at 12.30 this afternoon and said that it will ignore the direction of the Industrial Relations Commission and hold its strike tomorrow in any event, despite the Industrial Relations Commission’s order. I am very disappointed in the State School Teachers’ Union’s executive for providing that directive to the workforce. The State School Teachers’ Union’s executive should have complied with what the Industrial Relations Commission directed. We have been through a process with the State School Teachers’ Union’s executive to try to reach an agreement on this matter. We want to pay teachers well. It is a little known fact that under an offer that we put to the State School Teachers’ Union, an ordinary classroom teacher would be paid $84 300 a year. In tougher-to-staff schools in the country or in parts of the metropolitan area, additional allowances up to $20 000 would be available. Under that offer, teachers would be amongst the very best paid in the country—that is, in most cases, because obviously various locations and levels need to be considered. We are prepared to continue negotiations with the teachers’ union; however, its industrial action does not make it easy. We are now directing principals to decide what should happen in individual schools. In some schools very few staff will go on strike and in others a lot of staff will go on strike. We are leaving it to individual schools to decide that and we have faith in the principals that they will be able to decide that matter as appropriate. I want to raise one thing; that is, the shadow Minister for Education and Training has been encouraging the school teachers’ union to take this strike action. I will read from the transcript of what he said on Monday — Our teachers are an inherently conservative group and they don’t take industrial action unless they deem it absolutely necessary, and I feel that they’ve reached that precipice. The Liberal Party has been encouraging the teachers’ union to take strike action tomorrow and members opposite should be ashamed of themselves.
(3) Will the minister guarantee that all children who go to school tomorrow will be properly supervised? Mr M. McGOWAN replied: (1)-(3) I thank the member for Darling Range for the question, which involves a very serious matter. We took the State School Teachers’ Union of Western Australia to the Industrial Relations Commission earlier in the week. The Industrial Relations Commission provided an order yesterday morning in which the commissioner directed that no strike action be taken. She also directed that the union comply with that and direct its members to comply with that. The department then made time available yesterday for the union executive to meet in order to issue those directives. The union decided not to meet yesterday; it decided that it would meet this morning. It came out at 12.30 this afternoon and said that it will ignore the direction of the Industrial Relations Commission and hold its strike tomorrow in any event, despite the Industrial Relations Commission’s order. I am very disappointed in the State School Teachers’ Union’s executive for providing that directive to the workforce. The State School Teachers’ Union’s executive should have complied with what the Industrial Relations Commission directed. We have been through a process with the State School Teachers’ Union’s executive to try to reach an agreement on this matter. We want to pay teachers well. It is a little known fact that under an offer that we put to the State School Teachers’ Union, an ordinary classroom teacher would be paid $84 300 a year. In tougher-to-staff schools in the country or in parts of the metropolitan area, additional allowances up to $20 000 would be available. Under that offer, teachers would be amongst the very best paid in the country—that is, in most cases, because obviously various locations and levels need to be considered. We are prepared to continue negotiations with the teachers’ union; however, its industrial action does not make it easy. We are now directing principals to decide what should happen in individual schools. In some schools very few staff will go on strike and in others a lot of staff will go on strike. We are leaving it to individual schools to decide that and we have faith in the principals that they will be able to decide that matter as appropriate. I want to raise one thing; that is, the shadow Minister for Education and Training has been encouraging the school teachers’ union to take this strike action. I will read from the transcript of what he said on Monday — Our teachers are an inherently conservative group and they don’t take industrial action unless they deem it absolutely necessary, and I feel that they’ve reached that precipice. The Liberal Party has been encouraging the teachers’ union to take strike action tomorrow and members opposite should be ashamed of themselves.
Mr M. McGOWAN replied: (1)-(3) I thank the member for Darling Range for the question, which involves a very serious matter. We took the State School Teachers’ Union of Western Australia to the Industrial Relations Commission earlier in the week. The Industrial Relations Commission provided an order yesterday morning in which the commissioner directed that no strike action be taken. She also directed that the union comply with that and direct its members to comply with that. The department then made time available yesterday for the union executive to meet in order to issue those directives. The union decided not to meet yesterday; it decided that it would meet this morning. It came out at 12.30 this afternoon and said that it will ignore the direction of the Industrial Relations Commission and hold its strike tomorrow in any event, despite the Industrial Relations Commission’s order. I am very disappointed in the State School Teachers’ Union’s executive for providing that directive to the workforce. The State School Teachers’ Union’s executive should have complied with what the Industrial Relations Commission directed. We have been through a process with the State School Teachers’ Union’s executive to try to reach an agreement on this matter. We want to pay teachers well. It is a little known fact that under an offer that we put to the State School Teachers’ Union, an ordinary classroom teacher would be paid $84 300 a year. In tougher-to-staff schools in the country or in parts of the metropolitan area, additional allowances up to $20 000 would be available. Under that offer, teachers would be amongst the very best paid in the country—that is, in most cases, because obviously various locations and levels need to be considered. We are prepared to continue negotiations with the teachers’ union; however, its industrial action does not make it easy. We are now directing principals to decide what should happen in individual schools. In some schools very few staff will go on strike and in others a lot of staff will go on strike. We are leaving it to individual schools to decide that and we have faith in the principals that they will be able to decide that matter as appropriate. I want to raise one thing; that is, the shadow Minister for Education and Training has been encouraging the school teachers’ union to take this strike action. I will read from the transcript of what he said on Monday — Our teachers are an inherently conservative group and they don’t take industrial action unless they deem it absolutely necessary, and I feel that they’ve reached that precipice. The Liberal Party has been encouraging the teachers’ union to take strike action tomorrow and members opposite should be ashamed of themselves.
(1)-(3) I thank the member for Darling Range for the question, which involves a very serious matter. We took the State School Teachers’ Union of Western Australia to the Industrial Relations Commission earlier in the week. The Industrial Relations Commission provided an order yesterday morning in which the commissioner directed that no strike action be taken. She also directed that the union comply with that and direct its members to comply with that. The department then made time available yesterday for the union executive to meet in order to issue those directives. The union decided not to meet yesterday; it decided that it would meet this morning. It came out at 12.30 this afternoon and said that it will ignore the direction of the Industrial Relations Commission and hold its strike tomorrow in any event, despite the Industrial Relations Commission’s order. I am very disappointed in the State School Teachers’ Union’s executive for providing that directive to the workforce. The State School Teachers’ Union’s executive should have complied with what the Industrial Relations Commission directed. We have been through a process with the State School Teachers’ Union’s executive to try to reach an agreement on this matter. We want to pay teachers well. It is a little known fact that under an offer that we put to the State School Teachers’ Union, an ordinary classroom teacher would be paid $84 300 a year. In tougher-to-staff schools in the country or in parts of the metropolitan area, additional allowances up to $20 000 would be available. Under that offer, teachers would be amongst the very best paid in the country—that is, in most cases, because obviously various locations and levels need to be considered. We are prepared to continue negotiations with the teachers’ union; however, its industrial action does not make it easy. We are now directing principals to decide what should happen in individual schools. In some schools very few staff will go on strike and in others a lot of staff will go on strike. We are leaving it to individual schools to decide that and we have faith in the principals that they will be able to decide that matter as appropriate. I want to raise one thing; that is, the shadow Minister for Education and Training has been encouraging the school teachers’ union to take this strike action. I will read from the transcript of what he said on Monday — Our teachers are an inherently conservative group and they don’t take industrial action unless they deem it absolutely necessary, and I feel that they’ve reached that precipice. The Liberal Party has been encouraging the teachers’ union to take strike action tomorrow and members opposite should be ashamed of themselves.
We are now directing principals to decide what should happen in individual schools. In some schools very few staff will go on strike and in others a lot of staff will go on strike. We are leaving it to individual schools to decide that and we have faith in the principals that they will be able to decide that matter as appropriate. I want to raise one thing; that is, the shadow Minister for Education and Training has been encouraging the school teachers’ union to take this strike action. I will read from the transcript of what he said on Monday — Our teachers are an inherently conservative group and they don’t take industrial action unless they deem it absolutely necessary, and I feel that they’ve reached that precipice. The Liberal Party has been encouraging the teachers’ union to take strike action tomorrow and members opposite should be ashamed of themselves.
I want to raise one thing; that is, the shadow Minister for Education and Training has been encouraging the school teachers’ union to take this strike action. I will read from the transcript of what he said on Monday — Our teachers are an inherently conservative group and they don’t take industrial action unless they deem it absolutely necessary, and I feel that they’ve reached that precipice. The Liberal Party has been encouraging the teachers’ union to take strike action tomorrow and members opposite should be ashamed of themselves.
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