Media Releases 2008 and earlier

 

2008

  • Funding for TAFE Welcomed, 12 December 2008
  • Guarantee Funding for TAFE, 29 October 2008
  • Income Contingent Loans will not solve Skill Shortages, 26 August 2008
  • TAFE Teachers Renew Call For Funding, 13 January 2008

    2007

  • More TAFE Teachers Needed, 20 November
  • Survey Shows Under-Funding Impacting Training for Crucial Trades at Launceston TAFE, 14 November
  • Howard Continues Waste and Duplication with ATC Announcement, 29 October
  • More Wasteful ATCs, 24 October
  • Survey Shows Under-Funding Causing Cuts in Crucial Trades at Gordon TAFE, 18 October
  • Privatising TAFE Will Fuel Skills Shortage, 25 September
  • Fund TAFE First, 17 September
  • TAFE Under-Funding a Voting Issue: National Poll, 31 August
  • AEU calls on Robb to clarify Federal TAFE funding announcement, 30 May
  • Alert: Affordable TAFE Roundtable, 8 May
  • TAFE HECS call an excuse for lack of government funding, 19 April
  • Federal Government continues its attacks on TAFE, 14 March
  • TAFE Teachers Plan National Election Campaign to Increase Funding, 15 January

    2006

  • Minister Confirms Howard Government Hostile Towards TAFE, 19 October
  • New Inquiry Finds Urgent Need for Action on TAFE, 18 October
  • Skills Crisis - Right Target Wrong Solution, 12 October
  • AEU welcomes widening of the TAFE debate, 28 September
  • Skills shortage crisis continues under Howard Government with no vision for future, 18 September
  • TAFE Futures - A National Inquiry, 15 May
  • Abolish Fees for all TAFE Students, 30 January

    2005

  • AEU calls on Federal Government to "Get Serious" about VET, 21 October
  • Howard's IR laws will compromise the quality of Australia's education, says AEU, 4 October
  • Australian Technical Colleges abandon Australian students, 15 July
  • Government plan undermines staff rights and threatens universities and TAFEs, (Joint Unions Media Release) 31 May
  • National TAFE Funding 2005 Update - ppt format and pdf format
  • AEU Federal TAFE Fact Sheet - Howard Government threatens to cut $1.2 billion from VET funding, 23 May
  • TAFE teachers say no to Australian Workplace Agreements - National Day of Action June 1, 19 May
  • Your conditions blown away - What is wrong with Australian Workplace Agreements, 16 May
  • No Federal TAFE funding from July 2005?, (AEU Federal TAFE Fact Sheet) 16 May
  • Federal Government threatens to deny TAFE funding, 12 May
  • John Howard should have gone to TAFE, 22 April
  • Howard leaves legacy of failure on skills shortages, 12 April
  • VET Minister's funding claims do not tell the true story, 8 March

    2004

  • Government Cuts to Skills Funding will Worsen Skills Crisis Joint ACTU and AEU Media Release, 22 October
  • Wasteful Technical Colleges to cost Australian taxpayers almost ten times as much as TAFE, 30 September
  • Technical Colleges Proposal Wasteful and Unworkable, 27 September
  • Coalition Pre-Vocational Offer is Not Enough , 24 September
  • Coalition's Skills Institute Fails Test of Excellence , 23 September
  • AEU TAFE Considers More Campaign Action , 18 August
  • Howard Cynical on Trades Places and TAFE Funding, 10 August
  • TAFE Students: Enrol to Vote" and "Vote 1 TAFE", 22 June
  • $700 Million for Youth Guarantee Welcomed by the AEU, 14 May
  • Howard Neglects TAFE Students, 12 May
  • The Family Budget Fails Australian Students, 11 May
  • More than 50,000 students turned away from TAFE, 29 March
  • Federal TAFE Crisis Targeted in Election Campaign, 14 January

    2003

  • Over 40,000 Young People to Miss Out on a TAFE Place, as Federal Government Freezes Funds: Regional and Rural to be Hard Hit, 26 November
  • TAFE Students Celebrate or Commiserate?, 21 November
  • Education Union Welcomes Labor's Focus on TAFE, 7 July
  • Another 40,000 TAFE Students Likely to Miss Out in 2003, 27 May
  • TAFE Students Get Cold Shoulder for Christmas, 27 May
  • TAFE Alert to Federal Budget Attack, 9 May
  • Is Nelson Planning a "Hex" on TAFE, 13 January
  • 2002

  • Robbing TAFE Students to Give to the Rich, 19 August

    2001

  • Labor to Review ANTA Agreement, 7 November
  • Kemp Must Save 60,000 Apprenticeships 16 May
  • TAFE Funding at Crisis Point, 8 March
  • The ANTA Agreement, 8 June

    2000

  • The Senate Inquiry into the Quality of Vocational Education and Training, 13 November

  • This page last updated 10 February 2011


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