Media Releases
2025
The Australian Education Union (AEU) is calling on the Leader of the Opposition Peter Dutton to immediately come clean on his plans for cuts to public education.
The Australian Education Union (AEU) has today released a report about the Albanese Government’s Free TAFE program, confirming the significant benefits of the initiative and highlighting the risk that a Dutton Government poses to the Australia economy, TAFE teachers, and students.
2024
The Albanese Government’s Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) is a missed opportunity to strengthen the economy by properly investing in public schools.
In August this year, the 2024 NAPLAN results delivered a damning indictment on the failure of governments to fully fund public schools. Today’s release of these results on the MySchool website provides further evidence of the need for the full funding of public schools, with additional resourcing required to address educational inequality and disadvantage.
The AEU’s pre-election campaign was launched with a spectacular drone show above Sydney’s skyline, urging the Albanese Government to fully fund public schools, as promised.
The Australian Education Union has placed an immediate ban on the implementation of the Better and Fairer Schools Agreement.
The 2024 NAPLAN results have delivered a damning indictment on the failure of governments to fully fund public schools and show, once again, the urgency of the Albanese Government delivering on their pre-election promise for public schools to be funded at 100% of the Schooling Resource Standard.
The Australian Education Union acknowledges the significant $768 million funding deal struck between the Albanese Government and the Northern Territory.
The Australian Education Union today welcomed news that the NT and Federal Governments are committing to full funding of public schools and said the investment was urgently needed.
Five private schools spent more on lavish new facilities in 2021 than governments spent on over half the public schools in the nation, according to a new report which reveals the full extent of the $30 billion capital divide in Australian schools.
The Australian Education Union today called on all governments to commit to ending the underfunding of public schools as a matter of urgency saying the future of the teaching profession is at stake along with the quality of education delivered across the nation.
Governments will make little or no progress towards ending the underfunding of public schools in 2024 despite being warned by their own Expert Panel that it is “urgent and critical” and the first step towards ensuring all students receive the support they need.