❓ A WA parliamentary question on notice addresses teacher shortages, government recruitment efforts, and the delayed release of the Twomey report. The Minister responds by highlighting transparency and initiatives to address the shortfall.
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TEACHER SHORTAGE
I refer to the continuing shortage of teachers and the government’s desperate attempts to mask the problem. (1) Given the government’s substantial expenditure on overseas and interstate recruitment campaigns, why is there still a shortage of specialist teachers, which is forcing an increasing number of students to learn via distance education, such as the flexible learning in schools program? (2) Given the government’s huge expenditure on overseas and interstate recruitment campaigns, why would year 11 and 12 students be forced to travel between schools to study traditional subjects, as was predicted on Monday by the Director General of the Department of Education and Training? (3) How much longer must Western Australian parents and teachers wait before the Twomey report is released publicly? Mr M. McGOWAN
I refer to the continuing shortage of teachers and the government’s desperate attempts to mask the problem. (1) Given the government’s substantial expenditure on overseas and interstate recruitment campaigns, why is there still a shortage of specialist teachers, which is forcing an increasing number of students to learn via distance education, such as the flexible learning in schools program? (2) Given the government’s huge expenditure on overseas and interstate recruitment campaigns, why would year 11 and 12 students be forced to travel between schools to study traditional subjects, as was predicted on Monday by the Director General of the Department of Education and Training? (3) How much longer must Western Australian parents and teachers wait before the Twomey report is released publicly? Mr M. McGOWAN
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(1)-(3) I thank the member for Darling Range for the question. The member said that the government is trying to mask the shortfall. We are so desperate to mask it that during a press conference two weeks ago, I released the “WA teacher demand and supply projections”, which details the exact predictions for the next 10 years. That is how much I was trying to mask this particular issue. We are the first government to put in place a proper workforce planning process. That process has produced the report that I have released publicly. I have made no secret of the fact that similar to every industry in Western Australia, there is a shortage of teachers in both private and public schools, which we must do something about. I have made no secret about that. I released the report two weeks ago. I indicated to the public of Western Australia that we need to introduce innovative and flexible measures to deal with the shortage. The director general has been working on that and she will continue to announce initiatives to deal with the shortfall. It is not as though we have not done anything already. Last year we introduced 17 initiatives, including an overseas and interstate recruitment campaign, which has been quite successful. At the moment our shortfall is slightly over half what it was in 1999, which is when the member for Darling Range was a minister. The economy is booming with enormous demand for labour. In 1999 there was huge unemployment. The shortfall is roughly half what it was in 1999. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr M. McGOWAN : Our overseas and international recruitment campaigns have been quite successful. Members must remember that moving around the world or moving 4 000 kilometres across Australia is a long-term process. We have to create the right atmosphere and environment so that Western Australia is seen as a good place in which to teach. That is what we have been doing. The campaign has been successful. From memory, more than 50 overseas teachers recently started teaching in Western Australia. The other day I visited two of the remotest schools in Australia at Wiluna and Kiwirrkurra. During that visit I met teachers from Tasmania who have moved to Western Australia. We have just launched a campaign in Tasmania. These initiatives are working.
(1) Given the government’s substantial expenditure on overseas and interstate recruitment campaigns, why is there still a shortage of specialist teachers, which is forcing an increasing number of students to learn via distance education, such as the flexible learning in schools program? (2) Given the government’s huge expenditure on overseas and interstate recruitment campaigns, why would year 11 and 12 students be forced to travel between schools to study traditional subjects, as was predicted on Monday by the Director General of the Department of Education and Training? (3) How much longer must Western Australian parents and teachers wait before the Twomey report is released publicly? Mr M. McGOWAN replied: (1)-(3) I thank the member for Darling Range for the question. The member said that the government is trying to mask the shortfall. We are so desperate to mask it that during a press conference two weeks ago, I released the “WA teacher demand and supply projections”, which details the exact predictions for the next 10 years. That is how much I was trying to mask this particular issue. We are the first government to put in place a proper workforce planning process. That process has produced the report that I have released publicly. I have made no secret of the fact that similar to every industry in Western Australia, there is a shortage of teachers in both private and public schools, which we must do something about. I have made no secret about that. I released the report two weeks ago. I indicated to the public of Western Australia that we need to introduce innovative and flexible measures to deal with the shortage. The director general has been working on that and she will continue to announce initiatives to deal with the shortfall. It is not as though we have not done anything already. Last year we introduced 17 initiatives, including an overseas and interstate recruitment campaign, which has been quite successful. At the moment our shortfall is slightly over half what it was in 1999, which is when the member for Darling Range was a minister. The economy is booming with enormous demand for labour. In 1999 there was huge unemployment. The shortfall is roughly half what it was in 1999. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr M. McGOWAN : Our overseas and international recruitment campaigns have been quite successful. Members must remember that moving around the world or moving 4 000 kilometres across Australia is a long-term process. We have to create the right atmosphere and environment so that Western Australia is seen as a good place in which to teach. That is what we have been doing. The campaign has been successful. From memory, more than 50 overseas teachers recently started teaching in Western Australia. The other day I visited two of the remotest schools in Australia at Wiluna and Kiwirrkurra. During that visit I met teachers from Tasmania who have moved to Western Australia. We have just launched a campaign in Tasmania. These initiatives are working.
(2) Given the government’s huge expenditure on overseas and interstate recruitment campaigns, why would year 11 and 12 students be forced to travel between schools to study traditional subjects, as was predicted on Monday by the Director General of the Department of Education and Training? (3) How much longer must Western Australian parents and teachers wait before the Twomey report is released publicly? Mr M. McGOWAN replied: (1)-(3) I thank the member for Darling Range for the question. The member said that the government is trying to mask the shortfall. We are so desperate to mask it that during a press conference two weeks ago, I released the “WA teacher demand and supply projections”, which details the exact predictions for the next 10 years. That is how much I was trying to mask this particular issue. We are the first government to put in place a proper workforce planning process. That process has produced the report that I have released publicly. I have made no secret of the fact that similar to every industry in Western Australia, there is a shortage of teachers in both private and public schools, which we must do something about. I have made no secret about that. I released the report two weeks ago. I indicated to the public of Western Australia that we need to introduce innovative and flexible measures to deal with the shortage. The director general has been working on that and she will continue to announce initiatives to deal with the shortfall. It is not as though we have not done anything already. Last year we introduced 17 initiatives, including an overseas and interstate recruitment campaign, which has been quite successful. At the moment our shortfall is slightly over half what it was in 1999, which is when the member for Darling Range was a minister. The economy is booming with enormous demand for labour. In 1999 there was huge unemployment. The shortfall is roughly half what it was in 1999. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr M. McGOWAN : Our overseas and international recruitment campaigns have been quite successful. Members must remember that moving around the world or moving 4 000 kilometres across Australia is a long-term process. We have to create the right atmosphere and environment so that Western Australia is seen as a good place in which to teach. That is what we have been doing. The campaign has been successful. From memory, more than 50 overseas teachers recently started teaching in Western Australia. The other day I visited two of the remotest schools in Australia at Wiluna and Kiwirrkurra. During that visit I met teachers from Tasmania who have moved to Western Australia. We have just launched a campaign in Tasmania. These initiatives are working.
(3) How much longer must Western Australian parents and teachers wait before the Twomey report is released publicly? Mr M. McGOWAN replied: (1)-(3) I thank the member for Darling Range for the question. The member said that the government is trying to mask the shortfall. We are so desperate to mask it that during a press conference two weeks ago, I released the “WA teacher demand and supply projections”, which details the exact predictions for the next 10 years. That is how much I was trying to mask this particular issue. We are the first government to put in place a proper workforce planning process. That process has produced the report that I have released publicly. I have made no secret of the fact that similar to every industry in Western Australia, there is a shortage of teachers in both private and public schools, which we must do something about. I have made no secret about that. I released the report two weeks ago. I indicated to the public of Western Australia that we need to introduce innovative and flexible measures to deal with the shortage. The director general has been working on that and she will continue to announce initiatives to deal with the shortfall. It is not as though we have not done anything already. Last year we introduced 17 initiatives, including an overseas and interstate recruitment campaign, which has been quite successful. At the moment our shortfall is slightly over half what it was in 1999, which is when the member for Darling Range was a minister. The economy is booming with enormous demand for labour. In 1999 there was huge unemployment. The shortfall is roughly half what it was in 1999. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr M. McGOWAN : Our overseas and international recruitment campaigns have been quite successful. Members must remember that moving around the world or moving 4 000 kilometres across Australia is a long-term process. We have to create the right atmosphere and environment so that Western Australia is seen as a good place in which to teach. That is what we have been doing. The campaign has been successful. From memory, more than 50 overseas teachers recently started teaching in Western Australia. The other day I visited two of the remotest schools in Australia at Wiluna and Kiwirrkurra. During that visit I met teachers from Tasmania who have moved to Western Australia. We have just launched a campaign in Tasmania. These initiatives are working.
Mr M. McGOWAN replied: (1)-(3) I thank the member for Darling Range for the question. The member said that the government is trying to mask the shortfall. We are so desperate to mask it that during a press conference two weeks ago, I released the “WA teacher demand and supply projections”, which details the exact predictions for the next 10 years. That is how much I was trying to mask this particular issue. We are the first government to put in place a proper workforce planning process. That process has produced the report that I have released publicly. I have made no secret of the fact that similar to every industry in Western Australia, there is a shortage of teachers in both private and public schools, which we must do something about. I have made no secret about that. I released the report two weeks ago. I indicated to the public of Western Australia that we need to introduce innovative and flexible measures to deal with the shortage. The director general has been working on that and she will continue to announce initiatives to deal with the shortfall. It is not as though we have not done anything already. Last year we introduced 17 initiatives, including an overseas and interstate recruitment campaign, which has been quite successful. At the moment our shortfall is slightly over half what it was in 1999, which is when the member for Darling Range was a minister. The economy is booming with enormous demand for labour. In 1999 there was huge unemployment. The shortfall is roughly half what it was in 1999. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr M. McGOWAN : Our overseas and international recruitment campaigns have been quite successful. Members must remember that moving around the world or moving 4 000 kilometres across Australia is a long-term process. We have to create the right atmosphere and environment so that Western Australia is seen as a good place in which to teach. That is what we have been doing. The campaign has been successful. From memory, more than 50 overseas teachers recently started teaching in Western Australia. The other day I visited two of the remotest schools in Australia at Wiluna and Kiwirrkurra. During that visit I met teachers from Tasmania who have moved to Western Australia. We have just launched a campaign in Tasmania. These initiatives are working.
(1)-(3) I thank the member for Darling Range for the question. The member said that the government is trying to mask the shortfall. We are so desperate to mask it that during a press conference two weeks ago, I released the “WA teacher demand and supply projections”, which details the exact predictions for the next 10 years. That is how much I was trying to mask this particular issue. We are the first government to put in place a proper workforce planning process. That process has produced the report that I have released publicly. I have made no secret of the fact that similar to every industry in Western Australia, there is a shortage of teachers in both private and public schools, which we must do something about. I have made no secret about that. I released the report two weeks ago. I indicated to the public of Western Australia that we need to introduce innovative and flexible measures to deal with the shortage. The director general has been working on that and she will continue to announce initiatives to deal with the shortfall. It is not as though we have not done anything already. Last year we introduced 17 initiatives, including an overseas and interstate recruitment campaign, which has been quite successful. At the moment our shortfall is slightly over half what it was in 1999, which is when the member for Darling Range was a minister. The economy is booming with enormous demand for labour. In 1999 there was huge unemployment. The shortfall is roughly half what it was in 1999. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr M. McGOWAN : Our overseas and international recruitment campaigns have been quite successful. Members must remember that moving around the world or moving 4 000 kilometres across Australia is a long-term process. We have to create the right atmosphere and environment so that Western Australia is seen as a good place in which to teach. That is what we have been doing. The campaign has been successful. From memory, more than 50 overseas teachers recently started teaching in Western Australia. The other day I visited two of the remotest schools in Australia at Wiluna and Kiwirrkurra. During that visit I met teachers from Tasmania who have moved to Western Australia. We have just launched a campaign in Tasmania. These initiatives are working.
Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr M. McGOWAN : Our overseas and international recruitment campaigns have been quite successful. Members must remember that moving around the world or moving 4 000 kilometres across Australia is a long-term process. We have to create the right atmosphere and environment so that Western Australia is seen as a good place in which to teach. That is what we have been doing. The campaign has been successful. From memory, more than 50 overseas teachers recently started teaching in Western Australia. The other day I visited two of the remotest schools in Australia at Wiluna and Kiwirrkurra. During that visit I met teachers from Tasmania who have moved to Western Australia. We have just launched a campaign in Tasmania. These initiatives are working.
The SPEAKER : I call the member Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr M. McGOWAN : Our overseas and international recruitment campaigns have been quite successful. Members must remember that moving around the world or moving 4 000 kilometres across Australia is a long-term process. We have to create the right atmosphere and environment so that Western Australia is seen as a good place in which to teach. That is what we have been doing. The campaign has been successful. From memory, more than 50 overseas teachers recently started teaching in Western Australia. The other day I visited two of the remotest schools in Australia at Wiluna and Kiwirrkurra. During that visit I met teachers from Tasmania who have moved to Western Australia. We have just launched a campaign in Tasmania. These initiatives are working.
Mr M. McGOWAN : Our overseas and international recruitment campaigns have been quite successful. Members must remember that moving around the world or moving 4 000 kilometres across Australia is a long-term process. We have to create the right atmosphere and environment so that Western Australia is seen as a good place in which to teach. That is what we have been doing. The campaign has been successful. From memory, more than 50 overseas teachers recently started teaching in Western Australia. The other day I visited two of the remotest schools in Australia at Wiluna and Kiwirrkurra. During that visit I met teachers from Tasmania who have moved to Western Australia. We have just launched a campaign in Tasmania. These initiatives are working.
(1) Given the government’s substantial expenditure on overseas and interstate recruitment campaigns, why is there still a shortage of specialist teachers, which is forcing an increasing number of students to learn via distance education, such as the flexible learning in schools program? (2) Given the government’s huge expenditure on overseas and interstate recruitment campaigns, why would year 11 and 12 students be forced to travel between schools to study traditional subjects, as was predicted on Monday by the Director General of the Department of Education and Training? (3) How much longer must Western Australian parents and teachers wait before the Twomey report is released publicly? Mr M. McGOWAN replied: (1)-(3) I thank the member for Darling Range for the question. The member said that the government is trying to mask the shortfall. We are so desperate to mask it that during a press conference two weeks ago, I released the “WA teacher demand and supply projections”, which details the exact predictions for the next 10 years. That is how much I was trying to mask this particular issue. We are the first government to put in place a proper workforce planning process. That process has produced the report that I have released publicly. I have made no secret of the fact that similar to every industry in Western Australia, there is a shortage of teachers in both private and public schools, which we must do something about. I have made no secret about that. I released the report two weeks ago. I indicated to the public of Western Australia that we need to introduce innovative and flexible measures to deal with the shortage. The director general has been working on that and she will continue to announce initiatives to deal with the shortfall. It is not as though we have not done anything already. Last year we introduced 17 initiatives, including an overseas and interstate recruitment campaign, which has been quite successful. At the moment our shortfall is slightly over half what it was in 1999, which is when the member for Darling Range was a minister. The economy is booming with enormous demand for labour. In 1999 there was huge unemployment. The shortfall is roughly half what it was in 1999. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr M. McGOWAN : Our overseas and international recruitment campaigns have been quite successful. Members must remember that moving around the world or moving 4 000 kilometres across Australia is a long-term process. We have to create the right atmosphere and environment so that Western Australia is seen as a good place in which to teach. That is what we have been doing. The campaign has been successful. From memory, more than 50 overseas teachers recently started teaching in Western Australia. The other day I visited two of the remotest schools in Australia at Wiluna and Kiwirrkurra. During that visit I met teachers from Tasmania who have moved to Western Australia. We have just launched a campaign in Tasmania. These initiatives are working.
(2) Given the government’s huge expenditure on overseas and interstate recruitment campaigns, why would year 11 and 12 students be forced to travel between schools to study traditional subjects, as was predicted on Monday by the Director General of the Department of Education and Training? (3) How much longer must Western Australian parents and teachers wait before the Twomey report is released publicly? Mr M. McGOWAN replied: (1)-(3) I thank the member for Darling Range for the question. The member said that the government is trying to mask the shortfall. We are so desperate to mask it that during a press conference two weeks ago, I released the “WA teacher demand and supply projections”, which details the exact predictions for the next 10 years. That is how much I was trying to mask this particular issue. We are the first government to put in place a proper workforce planning process. That process has produced the report that I have released publicly. I have made no secret of the fact that similar to every industry in Western Australia, there is a shortage of teachers in both private and public schools, which we must do something about. I have made no secret about that. I released the report two weeks ago. I indicated to the public of Western Australia that we need to introduce innovative and flexible measures to deal with the shortage. The director general has been working on that and she will continue to announce initiatives to deal with the shortfall. It is not as though we have not done anything already. Last year we introduced 17 initiatives, including an overseas and interstate recruitment campaign, which has been quite successful. At the moment our shortfall is slightly over half what it was in 1999, which is when the member for Darling Range was a minister. The economy is booming with enormous demand for labour. In 1999 there was huge unemployment. The shortfall is roughly half what it was in 1999. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr M. McGOWAN : Our overseas and international recruitment campaigns have been quite successful. Members must remember that moving around the world or moving 4 000 kilometres across Australia is a long-term process. We have to create the right atmosphere and environment so that Western Australia is seen as a good place in which to teach. That is what we have been doing. The campaign has been successful. From memory, more than 50 overseas teachers recently started teaching in Western Australia. The other day I visited two of the remotest schools in Australia at Wiluna and Kiwirrkurra. During that visit I met teachers from Tasmania who have moved to Western Australia. We have just launched a campaign in Tasmania. These initiatives are working.
(3) How much longer must Western Australian parents and teachers wait before the Twomey report is released publicly? Mr M. McGOWAN replied: (1)-(3) I thank the member for Darling Range for the question. The member said that the government is trying to mask the shortfall. We are so desperate to mask it that during a press conference two weeks ago, I released the “WA teacher demand and supply projections”, which details the exact predictions for the next 10 years. That is how much I was trying to mask this particular issue. We are the first government to put in place a proper workforce planning process. That process has produced the report that I have released publicly. I have made no secret of the fact that similar to every industry in Western Australia, there is a shortage of teachers in both private and public schools, which we must do something about. I have made no secret about that. I released the report two weeks ago. I indicated to the public of Western Australia that we need to introduce innovative and flexible measures to deal with the shortage. The director general has been working on that and she will continue to announce initiatives to deal with the shortfall. It is not as though we have not done anything already. Last year we introduced 17 initiatives, including an overseas and interstate recruitment campaign, which has been quite successful. At the moment our shortfall is slightly over half what it was in 1999, which is when the member for Darling Range was a minister. The economy is booming with enormous demand for labour. In 1999 there was huge unemployment. The shortfall is roughly half what it was in 1999. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr M. McGOWAN : Our overseas and international recruitment campaigns have been quite successful. Members must remember that moving around the world or moving 4 000 kilometres across Australia is a long-term process. We have to create the right atmosphere and environment so that Western Australia is seen as a good place in which to teach. That is what we have been doing. The campaign has been successful. From memory, more than 50 overseas teachers recently started teaching in Western Australia. The other day I visited two of the remotest schools in Australia at Wiluna and Kiwirrkurra. During that visit I met teachers from Tasmania who have moved to Western Australia. We have just launched a campaign in Tasmania. These initiatives are working.
Mr M. McGOWAN replied: (1)-(3) I thank the member for Darling Range for the question. The member said that the government is trying to mask the shortfall. We are so desperate to mask it that during a press conference two weeks ago, I released the “WA teacher demand and supply projections”, which details the exact predictions for the next 10 years. That is how much I was trying to mask this particular issue. We are the first government to put in place a proper workforce planning process. That process has produced the report that I have released publicly. I have made no secret of the fact that similar to every industry in Western Australia, there is a shortage of teachers in both private and public schools, which we must do something about. I have made no secret about that. I released the report two weeks ago. I indicated to the public of Western Australia that we need to introduce innovative and flexible measures to deal with the shortage. The director general has been working on that and she will continue to announce initiatives to deal with the shortfall. It is not as though we have not done anything already. Last year we introduced 17 initiatives, including an overseas and interstate recruitment campaign, which has been quite successful. At the moment our shortfall is slightly over half what it was in 1999, which is when the member for Darling Range was a minister. The economy is booming with enormous demand for labour. In 1999 there was huge unemployment. The shortfall is roughly half what it was in 1999. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr M. McGOWAN : Our overseas and international recruitment campaigns have been quite successful. Members must remember that moving around the world or moving 4 000 kilometres across Australia is a long-term process. We have to create the right atmosphere and environment so that Western Australia is seen as a good place in which to teach. That is what we have been doing. The campaign has been successful. From memory, more than 50 overseas teachers recently started teaching in Western Australia. The other day I visited two of the remotest schools in Australia at Wiluna and Kiwirrkurra. During that visit I met teachers from Tasmania who have moved to Western Australia. We have just launched a campaign in Tasmania. These initiatives are working.
(1)-(3) I thank the member for Darling Range for the question. The member said that the government is trying to mask the shortfall. We are so desperate to mask it that during a press conference two weeks ago, I released the “WA teacher demand and supply projections”, which details the exact predictions for the next 10 years. That is how much I was trying to mask this particular issue. We are the first government to put in place a proper workforce planning process. That process has produced the report that I have released publicly. I have made no secret of the fact that similar to every industry in Western Australia, there is a shortage of teachers in both private and public schools, which we must do something about. I have made no secret about that. I released the report two weeks ago. I indicated to the public of Western Australia that we need to introduce innovative and flexible measures to deal with the shortage. The director general has been working on that and she will continue to announce initiatives to deal with the shortfall. It is not as though we have not done anything already. Last year we introduced 17 initiatives, including an overseas and interstate recruitment campaign, which has been quite successful. At the moment our shortfall is slightly over half what it was in 1999, which is when the member for Darling Range was a minister. The economy is booming with enormous demand for labour. In 1999 there was huge unemployment. The shortfall is roughly half what it was in 1999. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr M. McGOWAN : Our overseas and international recruitment campaigns have been quite successful. Members must remember that moving around the world or moving 4 000 kilometres across Australia is a long-term process. We have to create the right atmosphere and environment so that Western Australia is seen as a good place in which to teach. That is what we have been doing. The campaign has been successful. From memory, more than 50 overseas teachers recently started teaching in Western Australia. The other day I visited two of the remotest schools in Australia at Wiluna and Kiwirrkurra. During that visit I met teachers from Tasmania who have moved to Western Australia. We have just launched a campaign in Tasmania. These initiatives are working.
Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr M. McGOWAN : Our overseas and international recruitment campaigns have been quite successful. Members must remember that moving around the world or moving 4 000 kilometres across Australia is a long-term process. We have to create the right atmosphere and environment so that Western Australia is seen as a good place in which to teach. That is what we have been doing. The campaign has been successful. From memory, more than 50 overseas teachers recently started teaching in Western Australia. The other day I visited two of the remotest schools in Australia at Wiluna and Kiwirrkurra. During that visit I met teachers from Tasmania who have moved to Western Australia. We have just launched a campaign in Tasmania. These initiatives are working.
The SPEAKER : I call the member Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr M. McGOWAN : Our overseas and international recruitment campaigns have been quite successful. Members must remember that moving around the world or moving 4 000 kilometres across Australia is a long-term process. We have to create the right atmosphere and environment so that Western Australia is seen as a good place in which to teach. That is what we have been doing. The campaign has been successful. From memory, more than 50 overseas teachers recently started teaching in Western Australia. The other day I visited two of the remotest schools in Australia at Wiluna and Kiwirrkurra. During that visit I met teachers from Tasmania who have moved to Western Australia. We have just launched a campaign in Tasmania. These initiatives are working.
Mr M. McGOWAN : Our overseas and international recruitment campaigns have been quite successful. Members must remember that moving around the world or moving 4 000 kilometres across Australia is a long-term process. We have to create the right atmosphere and environment so that Western Australia is seen as a good place in which to teach. That is what we have been doing. The campaign has been successful. From memory, more than 50 overseas teachers recently started teaching in Western Australia. The other day I visited two of the remotest schools in Australia at Wiluna and Kiwirrkurra. During that visit I met teachers from Tasmania who have moved to Western Australia. We have just launched a campaign in Tasmania. These initiatives are working.
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