New QTU Executive elected
Queensland Teachers' Journal, Vol 123 No 4, 5 June 2020, page no. 4
A new QTU Executive made up largely of QTU members working every day in schools and TAFEs has been elected for the next three years.
The 14 members elected, together with the six elected Senior Officers of the Union, form the 20-person QTU Executive, which meets fortnightly during term time to make decisions about the range of issues facing QTU members. On any decision, there is a maximum of 16 votes, and 15 of those are exercised by school or TAFE-based members – a very important part of the democratic tradition and values of the QTU.
Executive manages Union affairs between State Council meetings. Its members chair and occupy positions on many Union committees and outside bodies.
The election would usually have been conducted at QTU State Council, but the cancellation of the May 2020 State Council meeting due to COVID-19 resulted in a postal ballot of QTU Council members and TAFE Council members carried out by the Electoral Commission of Queensland.
The members elected to the QTU Executive are:
12 Executive members
- Gillian Armit – teacher, Bounty Boulevard State School
- Joshua Cleary* - acting deputy principal, Morayfield State High School
- Peter Darben – teacher, Cavendish Road State High School
- Shane Hancock – deputy principal, Leichhardt State School
- Beck Humphreys – teacher, Barcaldine P-12 State School
- Tom McCartney* – teacher, Yarrabah State School
- Natalie Montague-Clarke – teacher, Manly State School
- Cassandra Munro – teacher, Ferny Hills State School
- Leah Olsson – teacher, Cairns West State School
- Nikki Roos – teacher, Brighton State School
- Nicholas Shirley – principal, Atherton State School
- Andrew Thompson – principal, Redlands District Special School
TAFE Division Executive member
- Scott Tibaldi – teacher, TQST Bracken Ridge Campus
Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander member
- Rachel Bos* – teacher, Bremer State High School.
(* indicates a new member of the Executive)
To find out more about the members of Executive, visit here.