Submissions

• AEU Submission to the Review of Teaching and Teacher Education - October 2002

• AEU Submission to the Senate Employment, Workplace Relations and Education Legislation Committee Inquiry into the Workplace Relations Amendment (Paid Maternity Leave) Bill 2002 - July 2002

• AEU Submission to the HREOC Inquiry into Paid Maternity Leave - "If Not Now .........Then When?" - July 2002

• AEU Submission to the Standing Committee on Economics, Finance and Public Administration Inquiry into Local Government and Cost Shifting - July 2002

• Modernising Labor: Which Way? - A Submission to the Australian Labor Party Committee of Review from the AEU - June 2002

• AEU Submission to the Department of Education, Science and Training Higher Education Review - June 2002

• AEU Submission to the Senate Employment, Workplace Relations and Education References Committee Inquiry into the Education of Students with Disabilities, Including Learning Disabilities, Throughout all Levels and Sectors of Education. - May 2002

• A Submission by the AEU to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission's National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention - May 2002

• AEU Submission to the Security Legislation (Terrorism) Bill - April 2002

• A Submission by the AEU to Senate Inquiry into IR Amendments - April 2002

2001

Papers

• Middle Schooling for the Middle Years - What Might the Jury be Considering? - Prepared for the AEU by Rod Chadbourne, Edith Cowan University, October 2001 [pdf format]

• The Western Australian Model of Preschool Education - AEU Research Report by Michaela Kronemann, July 2001 [pdf format]

• The OECD Education at a Glance Report 2001 (A selection from the many statistics reported) - Roy Martin, June 2001 [pdf format]

• Kemp Decoded - How Dr Kemp Doctors the Truth, May 2001

• Teaching Standards Kit, May 2001

• A Charter for Public Education: Federal Budget 2001 - Time for a commitment to public schools, preschools and TAFE, May 2001 [pdf format]

• Do Private Schools Really Save Governments Money? - Roy Martin, April 2001 [pdf format]

• The States Grants (Primary and Secondary Education Assistance) Act 2000 - Reigniting support for public education, February 2001, Denis Fitzgerald and Roy Martin. Paper prepared for the Education Review, Volume 5 No. 1 (February/March 2001 issue) (Reproduced with the kind permission of the Education Review)

• Western Australian Schools - Some Key Statistics, January 2001, Prepared by Roy Martin

• Teacher Supply and Demand in the States and Territories, January 2001, Report prepared by AEU Branches/Associated Bodies Research Officers [pdf format]

• The Commonwealth's Role in Public and Private School Funding - AEU Submission to the Independent Inquiry into the Provision of Public Education in New South Wales - November 2001

• A Submission by the AEU to the Senate Employment, Workplace Relations, Small Business and Education Legislation Committee Inquiry into the Provisions of the Innovation and Education Legislation Amendment Bill - June, 2001

• A Submission by the AEU to the Senate Employment, Workplace Relations, Small Business and Education References Committee Inquiry into the Education of Gifted and Talented Children - February 2001

2000

Papers

• Whatever You Do, Don't Mention the State Aid Debate - Roy Martin and Denis Fitzgerald
  Paper prepared for "School Resourcing: Towards Purposes, Analysis, and Effective Strategies, Reponses to the College Year Book 2000", Unicorn, Vol 26, No.2, July 2000, Journal of the Australian College of Education
  (Reproduced with the kind permission of The Australian College of Education)

  To view other papers in Unicorn click on Australian College of Education

• Parliamentary Brief: Vocational Education and Training Funding Amendment Bill 2000 Background Paper, 25 September 2000 [pdf format]

Submissions

• A Response by the AEU to the Draft Report of the Commonwealth Grants Commission Inquiry into Indigenous Education Funding - December 2000

• A Submission by the AEU to the DETYA Consultation on Draft Disability Standards for Education under the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) - November 2000

• AEU Submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Workplace Relations Inquiry into the Education of Boys - September 2000
  • Appendix 1 - AEU Policy on Gender Equity 1996
  • Appendix 1a - AEU Draft 2000 Gender Equity Policy and Action Plan
  • Appendix 2 - Gender Equity Resources in NSW Primary Schools
  • Appendix 3 - Five Strategic Directions from "Gender Equity: A Framework for Australian Schools"
  • Appendix 4 - AEU Policy on Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Education 1995
  • Appendix 5 - AEU Policy on Education in Rural Areas 1989
  • Appendix 6 - AEU Policy on Youth "Standing with the Young" 2000
  • Appendix 7 - AEU Policy on Sexual Orientation and Gender Preferred Identity 1995
  • Appendix 8 - AEU Policy on Curriculum 1993

  (Please note should you require a copy of any of the above policies, please send an email to the AEU to request a copy)

• Submission to the Senate Employment, Workplace Relations, Small Business and Education Legislation Committee on the Vocational Education and Training Funding Amendment Bill 2000 - September 2000

• AEU Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties: Australia's Relationship with the World Trade Organisation - September 2000

• AEU Submission to the Senate Employment, Workplace Relations, Small Business & Education Committee Inquiry into the Workplace Relations Amendment (Australian Workplace Agreements Procedures) Bill 2000, (Secret Ballots for Protected Action) Bill 2000, (Termination of Employment) Bill 2000 and (Tallies and Picnic Days) Bill 2000 - August 2000

• AEU Submission to the Senate Inquiry into the States Grants (Primary and Secondary Education Assistance) Bill 2000 - July 2000

• AEU Submission to the OECD Thematic Review of Early Childhood Education and Care - June, 2000

• AEU Submission to the Senate Employment, Workplace Relations, Small Business & Education Legislation Committee Inquiry into the Workplace Relations Amendment Bill 2000 - May 2000

1999

Papers

• Public Education, Prince or Pauper? - A Submission by Sharan Burrow & Roy Martin, October, 1999

• Democrats' GST Deal Fails Education - An Analysis of the Deal Between the Democrats and the Federal Coalition on the GST by the Australian Education Union, the Independent Education Union and the National Tertiary Education & Industry Union, 1999

• The Redefinition of Public Education, - Associate Professor Alan Reid, 1999

• Increasing the Burden: The GST and Parental Costs in Government Schools - Roy Martin, February 1999

• New Federal Funding Policies - An Attack on Public Education - Roy Martin
  [pdf format]
  

• Submission to the Senate Employment, Workplace Relations, Small Business and Education Committee Inquiry on the Quality of Vocational Education and Training in Australia- December 1999

• AEU Submission to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Inquiry into Rural and Remote Education - November, 1999
  • Appendix 1 - Public Education, Prince or Pauper? - A Submission by Sharan Burrow & Roy Martin, October, 1999
  • Appendix 2 - Extract from Schooling in Rural Australia, Commonwealth Schools Commission, November 1987 (pages 214-216)
  • Appendix 3 - AEU Submission to the Senate Employment, Education and Training References Committee Inquiry into Indigenous Education 'Talk the Talk' ..now..'Walk the Walk'

• AEU Submission to the Senate Employment, Workplace Relations, Small Businesss & Education Committee Inquiry into the Workplace Relations Legislation Amendment (More Jobs, Better Pay), Bill 1999 - September 1999

• AEU Submission to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Inquiry into Pregnancy and Work: A Nice Job for a Girl, But! - March, 1999

• AEU Submission on 1999 Federal Budget: Time for a fair go for public education - April, 1999

• AEU Submission to the Senate Select Committee on a New Tax System (GST) - January, 1999
  • Appendix 1- AEU Policy on Raising the Revenue Base
    
  • Appendix 2 - AEU Submission to the Tax Consultative Committee Application of the GST in Regard to Education - November, 1998
    
  • Appendix 3 - Principles of Commonwealth and State/Territory Relations in Schools
    

Previous Years

Papers

• How Kemp Always Gets His School Sums, Wrong - Roy Martin, 1998

• Schools Expenditure and the GDP - Roy Martin

• Teachers Schools and the New Technologies - John Graham and Roy Martin, January 1998 [pdf format]

• AEU Submission to the Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs to the Review of the Common and Agreed National Goals for Schooling in Australia - September 1998

• AEU Submission to the Senate Economics References Committee Inquiry into Workplace Relations and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 1996