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AEU policy is based on a commitment to universal access to at least
one year of preschool education for all Australian children, as an integral
part of the early childhood education offered by a high quality, properly
resourced system of public education. This page tells about our policies,
plans and campaigns for preschool education.
Contents
What’s new
Campaign Materials and Background Information
Reports and Submissions
- Australian Education Union Submission to the Early Childhood Quality Group on the National Quality Framework Regulations Exposure Draft Consultation April 2011
- Australian Education Union Submission
to Productivity Commission Early Childhood Development Workforce Study
February 2011
- AEU Submission to the COAG Consultation
on the Regulation Impact Statement for Early Childhood Education and
Care Quality Reforms September 2009
- AEU Submission to the Australian
Industrial Relations Commission Workplace Relations Act 1996 In
the Matters of: AM2008/70 – Educational Services – Preschool Teachers
AM2008/77 – Health and Welfare Services (remainder) – Children’s Services,
July 2009
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Australian Education Union Submission on the Early Years Learning Framework December 2008
- AEU
Submission to the COAG Productivity Agenda Working Group - Education, Skills, Training and Early Childhood Development on a National Quality Framework for Early Childhood Education and Care September 2008
- Where there's a will, it's child's play:
the way forward to quality preschool education for all AEU Discussion Paper - by Michaela Kronemann
- Report
on Government Services 2007 Early Childhood Education 2007 Update
- Report
on Government Services 2006 Early Childhood Education 2006 Update
- Report
on Government Services 2005 Early Childhood Education 2005 Update
- Report
on Government Services 2004 Early Childhood Education Update
2004
- AEU Response to the Consultation Paper
Towards the Development of a National Agenda for Early Childhood
- May 2003
- Report
on Government Services 2003 - Early Childhood Education Update 2003
- Early Childhood Education Developments
in Tasmania - AEU Research Report by Michaela Kronemann, October
2002
- Professor Helen May -- Keynote
address to AEU, Early Childhood Roundtable, 25 October 2001. "Early
Childhood Care and Education in Aoteara -- New Zealand: An Overview
of history, policy and curriculum".
- No Small Mattter - Quality
Preschools Benefit Children and Society - An AEU Research
Report prepared by Robin Hull and Sally Edsall, September 2001
50 representatives of a wide variety of groups interested in early
childhood education - teachers, parents, academics, unionists, media
and politicians - gathered in Melbourne for the launch of "No
Small Matter", an AEU report on the importance of preschool education.
Read the AEU Media Release and The
Age's Report.
- The Western Australian Model of Preschool
Education - Research Report by Michaela Kronemann, July
2001
- AEU Submission to OECD Thematic Review of Early Childhood Education and Care
- June 2000. You can see the AEU submission to the OECD Review here.
- Towards a National Plan for Preschool
Education
This discussion paper was prepared in December 1998 for the AEU
by Michaela Kronemann in consultation with the AEU's National Early
Childhood Committee, the Federal Office and Branches and Associated
Bodies of the AEU.

Policy
Media Releases
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