2025 was a significant year for QTU members, with a protracted EB11 campaign, hard-fought and punctuated by two days of protected industrial action, providing a vivid demonstration of union solidarity. Teachers and school leaders walked off the job, not once but twice. It wasn’t easy, but our members held firm in pursuit of improved salaries and working conditions, trying to make state schools the best they can be.
Delegates at November Council heard a report on the progress of the EB11 campaign, noting that more than 67 per cent of members had rejected the government’s best and final offer in an online ballot, which closed immediately before Council.
Craig Adam (pictured) has stepped into the acting TAFE Organiser role for the next six months, while David Terrauds steps away to negotiate the next TAFE and CQU certified agreements. Here he shares a bit about himself.
This year’s QTU’s State Budget Submission outlines 57 recommendations across nine key areas and offers well-considered solutions that would ease the pressures within the public education sector.
Welcome back! I truly hope everyone had some downtime over the holiday period to de-stress and process the year that was.
QTU members took to the streets across Queensland for a second full day of industrial action on 25 November 2025.
For too long, advisory visiting teachers (AVTs) have delivered expert support to students with complex and diverse needs while facing deep uncertainty about their own employment futures.
Since 1990, the QTU has proudly been running the Peace and Equity Awards in Queensland state schools.
On 5 January, the QTU received a Notice of Referral confirming that the matter of our enterprise bargaining negotiations has been referred to arbitration under section 177(2) of the Industrial Relations Act 2016 (Qld).
The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) Healthy Work Conference in Adelaide from 20-21 November brought together unionists and allies in health and safety to build the union movement’s capacity to win safer and healthier work. The theme for 2025 was From Risk to Rights: Collective Action for Safe and Healthy Work.
Every worker has the right to go to work and return home in the same physical and psychological state every day.
Brisbane was the host of the 2025 AEU New Educators Conference in November, which brought together union activists in their first five years of teaching from all over the country. Here are some of the Queensland delegates’ impressions.
Welcome to all new educators joining our profession. The QTU knows this year will bring many firsts, many challenges, and a lot of learning curves. Knowing your rights and responsibilities can help you to negotiate your new role. To help you get started, here is some information and a few tips.
Every three years, the World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference on Education (WIPCE) gathers Indigenous knowledge keepers from around the globe to share strategies for culturally grounded education, connect with other Indigenous peoples, and hear from those world-renowned in Indigenous education.
2026 will be a busy year for the TAFE Division of the QTU, with educators in both TAFE Queensland and Central Queensland University (CQU) bargaining for new certified and enterprise agreements respectively.
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In schools across Australia, the conversation around safety has broadened. No longer confined to physical risks, slippery floors, faulty wiring or playground falls, school safety now squarely includes psychosocial hazards: the stress, trauma, and emotional load that educators face daily in their work.
QTAD Q&A
In many of the documents created in the course of one’s educational working life, one term sticks in the memory more than others. That term is “lifelong learning”.
