❓ Mr. Rundle questions the Minister for Education about allowances for relief teachers in regional and remote schools, given the possibility of no salary increases. The Minister dismisses the question, highlighting existing attraction and retention programs and implying future pay rise possibilities.
AnsweredQoN 688Legislative Assembly
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SCHOOLS —
TEACHER WELLBEING
688. Mr P.J. RUNDLE to the Minister for Education:
I have a supplementary question. If
there are not salary increases in the offing, will the minister at least pay
relief teachers at regional and remote schools the same allowances that
mainstream teachers receive?
TEACHER WELLBEING
688. Mr P.J. RUNDLE to the Minister for Education:
I have a supplementary question. If
there are not salary increases in the offing, will the minister at least pay
relief teachers at regional and remote schools the same allowances that
mainstream teachers receive?
AnswerView source ↗
The member is really all over the
place. The premise of the member's first question was that our teachers
are nearly the lowest paid in Australia. I just proved that he is wrong. Now he
is starting on something completely different. We pay our teachers very well.
As members know, yesterday I talked about the attraction and retention
incentive program for remote schools. The number of schools involved has
increased to 66 throughout Western Australia. We are instigating many, many
measures. Who is saying that teachers are not to receive a pay rise? The member
will just have to wait and see.
The SPEAKER : Before I give
the member for Kingsley the call, the rule is that the supplementary question
should be directly related to the original question asked or directly related
to the answer that has just been given. Although it was definitely related, it
was not directly related to the original question, nor was it directly related
to any part of the minister's answer. I ask you to bear that in mind.
As I said yesterday, we initiated having supplementary questions so people
could ask that direct question to get that bit of extra information about the
original question or what had originally been asked or a part of the minister's
answer.
place. The premise of the member's first question was that our teachers
are nearly the lowest paid in Australia. I just proved that he is wrong. Now he
is starting on something completely different. We pay our teachers very well.
As members know, yesterday I talked about the attraction and retention
incentive program for remote schools. The number of schools involved has
increased to 66 throughout Western Australia. We are instigating many, many
measures. Who is saying that teachers are not to receive a pay rise? The member
will just have to wait and see.
The SPEAKER : Before I give
the member for Kingsley the call, the rule is that the supplementary question
should be directly related to the original question asked or directly related
to the answer that has just been given. Although it was definitely related, it
was not directly related to the original question, nor was it directly related
to any part of the minister's answer. I ask you to bear that in mind.
As I said yesterday, we initiated having supplementary questions so people
could ask that direct question to get that bit of extra information about the
original question or what had originally been asked or a part of the minister's
answer.
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