Media Release: Parents and teachers need a plan for school closures and supervision The NSW Government must immediately develop options for retaining minimal supervision at NSW schools if a decision is made to close schools to deal with covid-19. The current...
Media release: TAFE HECS plans raise prospect of increased fees 25 February 2020 The NSW Government proposal to introduce the HECS system for TAFE students raises the very real prospect of significant fee increases, and the risk of high level debt for students doing...
The latest TAFE procurement tender will see essential curriculum planning for vocational education being outsourced. This is the outcome of years of Liberal Government cuts to vocational education which are resulting in key skills being lost, and core functions being...
Information received by the Greens, following a threat to censure the Education Minister, shows that public schools across NSW have $1.3 billion in unspent money. Averaged across the states 2,200 public schools this equates to almost $600,000 unspent for every school....
After pressure from the NSW Upper House the Government has finally released a secret report on the controversial Confucius Classrooms in NSW schools. The report discloses how the NSW Government signed an agreement with the Confucius Institute Headquarters of China...
Figures obtained by NSW Greens MP David Shoebridge show that some of the wealthiest and most exclusive private schools in NSW are hoovering up millions of taxpayer funds. Knox Grammar School which recently opened its $47 million dollar performing arts centre, charged...
The administration of Wollongong University is selling off the campus from under their students’ feet, with a proposed development on a quarter of the site including a retirement facility in association with property developer LendLease. Greens MP and...
Far reaching changes to the treatment of students with special needs have been recommended by a unanimous NSW Parliamentary Inquiry and should be a wake-up call to the government. The report handed down today sets a new path for special needs education and includes a...
The Parliamentary Inquiry into the overcrowding of inner city schools and the redevelopment of Ultimo Public School has today handed down its final report making clear recommendations for how to fix the capacity shortage in our inner city schools. In the course of the...
As the year draws to a close we can look back on some of the campaigning achievements of 2016. It has not been an easy year for progressive politics around the world, but here in NSW we’ve had some results worth celebrating. We have campaigned strongly against forced...
Mr DAVID SHOEBRIDGE: On behalf of the Greens I indicate that we support the Child Protection (Working With Children) and Other Child Protection Legislation Amendment Bill 2016. This bill does a number of things. The objectives of the bill include: (a)to amend the...
This speech was delivered on 12.10.2016 in the NSW Upper House. You can read the full debate online here. On behalf of The Greens I will speak to the Education and Teaching Legislation Amendment Bill 2016. This bill amends three major pieces of legislation that govern...
