This is a new series of updates that the QTU will be providing after significant member meetings, including those of Council, Conference and Executive.
These updates are designed to provide members with a snapshot of the many ways in which the QTU is working for you, each and every day.
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2025
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2024
Wrap up - end of year activities | RAR Allocations and Staffing Planner | Curriculum Gateway | Mandatory training | Federal funding crisis | Milton office facilities works | QTU office closure
QTU Education Brief: an update for the new government on the state of state schools | Final days of recruitment offer | QTU member survey
Working for Members | State Election 2024 | QTU special membership offer | Navigating the Teacher Shortage: a new guide for school leaders and Union Reps | QTU Secretariat Election |
August State Council Report - QTU State Council was convened at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre on 10 August.
Government announcements regarding attraction and retention initiatives
Ministerial Workforce Roundtable provides tangible outcomes for members
EB11 log of claims | NAIDOC Week | Sign up for your Fitness Passport
State Budget handed down | Valuing Our Profession | EB log of claims | State election | Happy holidays
Valuing Our Profession | Information sessions for QTU members | Queensland Skills Strategy | Change of QTU Springwood office location
For Every Child | Next steps | EB log of claims development meetings | QTU win – Fitness Passport to be extended | QTU win – reproductive health leave | QTU stakeholder submissions | ECTA Early Childhood Conference | IDAHOBIT
Valuing our profession ballot closes 5pm today | EB11 online discussions
Special QTU Executive meeting | Valuing Our Profession – campaign overview | State of Our Schools Survey – The teacher shortage and the need for additional resourcing | End of term
Proposed amendments to the Education (General Provisions) Act (EGPA) | Teacher shortage – preparation for week of action underway | Investing in public education | Workplace health and safety – mould updates | QTU quarterly member survey – now open! | Harmony Day – standing in solidarity with our diverse membership
State Council | Attraction and retention | QTU quarterly member survey - have your say today! | AEU State of Our Schools 2024 survey | Final call – registrations closing soon on United Leadership Conference!
Teacher Shortage Campaign | Week 41 activities | Right to disconnect | Australian Curriculum – Version 9 (ACV9) implementation update | New classroom observation and performance development processes | EB log of claims development meetings | QTU Education Leaders Conference - registrations now open!
Working for members | Addressing the teacher shortage | Keeping in touch (KIT) days | Share your wins | DoE Pride in Diversity survey
Working for members | Teacher shortage | Cyclone Kirrily and ongoing extreme weather events | Australian Curriculum – Version 9 (ACV9) implementation update | HAT and LT consultation underway | Middle Leaders Reference Group update | Music for Every Child, Every Week campaign | QTU Submission to the Youth Justice Reform Select Committee | QTU feedback on Declaration of Interests – Public Sector Employees (Excluding Chief Executives) Directive
2023
Attraction and retention payments – TR2 and TR3 schools
QTU Strategic Objectives and Priorities for 2024
A national road trip, “For Every Child”
Work Safe Month
Welcome to the final term of the school year
The QTU - Working for members No.10-23
The QTU - Working for members No.9-23
TAFE protected industrial action | Teacher shortages | Retention payments for selected TR2 and TR3 schools | Unions for Yes
For Every Child – Fully Fund State Schools
The QTU - Working for members No.6-23
HAT and lead | Professional standards for middle leaders | Declaration of interest and management of conflicts | New recruitment and selection directive | QLearn update | Borderless recruitment trial | National School Reform Agreements | Reduction of accumulated HELP debt | Human rights survey
Behaviour management – Zero Tolerance campaign | Biennial Conference: Rights, Responsibilities, Respect | QTU member survey | Managing the Risk of Psychosocial Hazards at Work Code of Practice | QLearn update | The right to disconnect | QTU communications over the school holidays
Behaviour management | National School Reform Agreement Survey | Changes to the make-up of local consultative committees (LCCs) | Artificial intelligence (Chat GPT) |Respect in the workplace survey | Early childhood education matters!
New term begins for QTU Executive
A new series of updates that the QTU will be providing after significant member meetings, including those of Council, Conference and Executive.