Australian Education Union NT in Darwin, Northern Territory | Trade union

Australian Education Union NT

Locality: Darwin, Northern Territory

Phone: +61 8 8948 5399

Address: 3/8 Totem Rd, Coconut Grove 0810 Darwin, NT, Australia

Website: http://www.aeunt.org.au/

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25.01.2022 This week students across the world are holding climate strikes and rallies. If you're in Darwin and can make it, show your support from midday, Friday October 15 at Civic Park, Darwin. Visit https://www.schoolstrike4climate.com for more info.

25.01.2022 ALICE SPRINGS MEMBERS - Join unionists from across the public sector this Thursday October 14 and make your voice heard against the government's 4-year pay freeze! Meet from 4pm on the Civic Centre Lawns, cnr Todd St and Stott Tce. If you're not already a union member, sign up now at aeunt.org.au/membership/

25.01.2022 AEU NT statement: "SAY NO TO A FOUR-YEAR PAY FREEZE" We were expecting an announcement in today’s budget that annual pay rises would be restricted to $1000 for the next four years, based on the recommendations of the Langoulant report. What we weren’t expecting was a PAY FREEZE for teachers and all other public sector workers for the next four years.... Instead of a wage increase, eligible public servants will receive an annual retention bonus of $1000. Current pay grades will not move one cent. In simple terms, if you’re a CT9, an ST1 or an A03, you will be on the same salary in 2025 as you are now. Over the next four years, our teachers will go from being the best paid in the country to among the worst. The pay freeze will jeopardise efforts to recruit and retain teaching staff, as other jurisdictions offer salary increases of up to 3% p/a. This harsh wage freeze was kept secret from the public and from the public servants who voted overwhelmingly to return Gunner to government. Now, with the election over, he has sprung this wage freeze on us. Our union will not lay down and accept a four-year wage freeze. We will mobilise our members in enterprise bargaining next year and fight for a fair and reasonable pay increase for Territory teachers, principals and educators. See more

24.01.2022 Katherine town and remote Manyallaluk members standing in solidarity at the Unions NT Katherine rally to beat the freeze! Watch this space for further actions across the Territory and join your union today at aeunt.org.au/membership

24.01.2022 Join us this Thursday (5.30pm NT time) for the AEU's latest webinar on the big issues shaping the education debate. Free but registration is essential: https://us02web.zoom.us//6916025/WN_gPJMyc0lRnOURcqrbm8suQ

23.01.2022 A good group to join to keep informed about teaching vacancies in the NT... and to share them with your interstate friends who are ready to embrace the adventure of teaching in the NT.

22.01.2022 Week 5 sees Alyson (Organiser) and Melody (Project Officer) hitting the tarmac again, this time in Arnhem Land! A warm welcome was received at Gapuwiyak, Ramingining and Milingimbi over AEU NT hosted morning teas. Shepherdson College and Maningrida coming up next!

22.01.2022 Organiser Alyson Kavanagh and Project Officer Melody O’Meara finally got to hit the tarmac and the Tanami Rd on their first big trip since COVID restrictions lifted within the NT. The Week 3 Alice Springs trip took in Yuendumu, Ross Park Primary, Centralian Middle, Centralian Senior, Acacia Hill, Larapinta Primary and the Alice Springs Regional Council AGM. A big shout out to all the sub-branch reps and members who helped organise school visits and a warm welcome to new members! This week the team are visiting schools in Arnhem. Get in touch if you'd like to organise a meeting for your sub-branch.

21.01.2022 A big WELL DONE to Greater Darwin members for the strong turnout and enthusiasm at yesterday's rally against the Gunner Government's 4 year pay freeze, and a THANK YOU for all the messages of solidarity from members across the Territory! This is just the beginning... #UnionStrong Unions NT

21.01.2022 We're sorry to see the passionate and hard working Selena Uibo go from education but wish her very well in her new portfolios. Our Full-Time Officers are meeting with the new education minister Lauren Moss tomorrow and look forward to Minister Moss addressing delegates to our annual Conference this Friday.

20.01.2022 Alyson and Melody finished up their week in East Arnhem with visits to Shepherdson College and Maningrida over the past two days. The 'Learning Together' afternoon at Shepherdson was a highlight with Balanda staff learning about directions from Yolu. They enjoyed meeting Maningrida staff and chatting over morning tea! Welcome to all new members and, again, a huge thanks to the hosts - you went above and beyond. So it's back to town for the coming week with meetings planned for Darwin and PARR. Please contact the office if you would like to arrange a visit to your school.

19.01.2022 AEU members on Groote Eylandt say NO to Gunner's pay freeze! #fightthefreeze

19.01.2022 We've once again had media and the Opposition focusing on low attendance among remote students based on data from the Department of Education's latest annual report. The CLP is touting truancy officers as part of the answer. From the linked article: 'Education Union president Jarvis Ryan said truancy officers do not address the underlying issues impacting disengaged students. He said past experience has provided no evidence a punitive approach leads to higher rates of attenda...nce in schools. This was a significant reason why the Department of Education changed its focus from ‘attendance’ to ‘engagement’, he said. It is simplistic to think that all problems in schooling will be fixed simply by getting kids to school more often, when instead we should be looking at poor attendance rates as evidence that certain things are not working systemically that mean many students and their families are disengaging from schooling.' See more

19.01.2022 An ABC report into homelands education published today highlights how a lack of funding is sabotaging the rights of children attending school in outstations to adequate and equitable resourcing: 'An internal review of the Northern Territory's Aboriginal homelands schools has found funding inequalities and a lack of government support. The ABC has seen a copy of the draft report finalised in September last year and given to the NT Education Department. Photos in the report reveal the poor state of some homelands learning centre buildings and teacher accommodation in 2019 visiting teachers living in tents and students learning in rusted-out buildings. "There is a lack of clarity, support and accountability in relation to the provision of homeland education services," the report said.'

18.01.2022 2020 has been a challenging year for all of us, from environmental disasters to world-wide pandemics and now the rise of the COVID-19 second wave. The next difficulty will be how we can manage to maintain enough energy to see out the rest of the year. Dr Adam Fraser, with the support of Teachers Mutual Bank, is offering educators a free online workshop on Thursday 3 September to share evidence-based research and practical tangible methods to tap into "The Third Space" and help you develop "behavioural agility". TMB is offering exclusive free access for AEU NT members to this seminar but registration is essential. Message us or email [email protected] for details on how to register.

18.01.2022 Reps from Darwin and Palmerston completed our full day training course for sub-branch reps, getting a grounding in the legal rights of workplace representatives, how to support members, resolving conflict and organising at work. Thanks to UWU for the use of your training room! #unionstrong

17.01.2022 Members at Yirrkala sub-branch say NO to the 4 year pay freeze! #fightthefreeze

15.01.2022 It's great to be back out and about visiting workplaces . This week our organising team visited 7 seven sub-branches in Darwin and Palmerston. A big welcome to all of our new members!

15.01.2022 DID YOU KNOW? Our annual Conference kicks off on Saturday and this year for the first time we will be live streaming most of the event for members. If you'd like the Zoom link to tune in, Message us or email [email protected].

13.01.2022 AEU members at Palmerston College 7-9 sub-branch say no to Gunner's 4 year pay freeze! #fightthefreeze Mark Turner MLA: Member for Blain

13.01.2022 A spirited gathering today outside Michael Gunner's electorate office in Parap today to support the Global Day of Action for Climate. In the NT, we're calling on the government to invest in renewable energy not fracking and to respect the wishes of traditional owners and look after country. #FundOurFutureNotGas

12.01.2022 Congratulations to AEU NT Executive member Dan Yore who was recognised as Secondary Teacher of the Year in the Teaching in the Territory Excellence Awards 2020. Dan wrote eloquently last year about his experiences teaching at Yirrkala School and what we can all learn from adopting a "both ways" approach to Indigenous education: "For the past few years I have had the great privilege of working with the Yolu of East Arnhem Land in their community-led school in Yirrkala. The ex...perience, professionally and personally, has been nothing short of transformative. More than that I have come to quickly see that there are here sophisticated educational methodologies, born out of millennia of cumulative wisdom, that I believe hold some keys to unlocking the 21st century educational methods our global community is so desperately searching for." Read Dan's article in full: https://aeunt.org.au/news/both-ways-learning-yirrkala/

12.01.2022 President Jarvis Ryan explains what the NT Budget pay freeze means. Read more in our latest Bulletin: https://aeunt.org.au/news/member-bulletin-number-12-2020/ #fightthefreeze

11.01.2022 More than four in five teachers and principals in Australian public schools say NAPLAN has failed to improve student outcomes and raised stress and anxiety in the classroom. Seventy-five per cent said NAPLAN was not an effective measure of school performance or an effective way to compare schools. The AEU has reiterated calls for NAPLAN to be dumped.

10.01.2022 AEU members from Henbury sub-branch saying no to Gunner's 4 year pay freeze. #fightthefreeze Lauren Moss : Member for Casuarina

08.01.2022 Centralian Senior College members taking a stand to beat the freeze from Alice Springs! Rally with us and workers across the public sector at State Square, Darwin, 4.30pm today.

08.01.2022 Executive members and delegates to our 2020 Branch Conference.

08.01.2022 A huge thanks to all our Alice Springs members who have kept the solidarity coming! Alice Springs Language Centre and Sadadeen Primary School members are wearing red to say NO to the pay freeze. Been meaning to join? Now is the time to visit aeunt.org.au/membership

08.01.2022 Members from across the Territory joined Women’s Officer Melody O’Meara for an inspiring day of panels and workshops at the AEU Federal Women’s Conference last Saturday October 9th. The day culminated in a powerful keynote address from ACTU Secretary, activist and feminist Sally McManus. The Zoom format meant that AEU NT members from a number of remote communities, Katherine, Alice Springs and Darwin had the opportunity to attend. The theme of the day was ‘Engaging AEU Women... in Campaigns.' Read more about it the upcoming edition of the Territory Educator and contact [email protected] to share your ideas for how we can further engage and empower each other. Here's what some of our women members said: I relished the opportunity to speak and listen to comrades. I gained confidence and shared some of my stories which I truly don’t believe I would have otherwise. I felt safe and respected. This was a most powerful day for me. It has impacted me not only as an educator but as a woman. I was blown away by the stories of women across the country who are working to support other women on a state and national level. I left feeling energised and wanting to create opportunities to talk and share with other women within my school (members and non-members) to increase engagement. Women need space to collaborate and talk about the issues they face. In smaller schools it can be difficult to speak up to these issues...it's vital for women to know that others have similar experiences and the Federal Women’s Conference provides that platform.

08.01.2022 We had a very busy weekend with our annual Conference - so busy we've only just had time to post some photos! It was a huge weekend with more than 100 matters debated by delegates. These pictures are from our reception on Friday evening. The highlight was the announcement that Vice-President Stephen Pelizzo has been nominated for AEU Life Membership for his 35 years of service to our union and public education in the Territory.

03.01.2022 Member Update: SCHOOL TERM DATES CONSULTATION The Minister for Education is responsible for determining the school calendar including the lengths of school terms and holiday breaks. School calendars are typically set at least two years in advance for a five-year period. To prepare a recommendation to the Minister, the Department is consulting the AEU and other stakeholders ahead of the gazetting of school dates for the years 2023-2027 (with a decision to be made by the end of... 2020). The AEU NT met with the Department yesterday. Consistent with Conference and Executive decisions, we advocated for the following three key outcomes: 1) Wherever feasible, the school year should be four terms of 10 weeks each (noting the Minister already approved a variation of dates for 2021 and 2022 to do this in response to feedback from teachers and principals). 2) That differentiated calendars for urban and remote schools be abolished. All schools should start and finish on the same day, in line with the current remote calendar. This would reduce confusion and remove the situation where in some years, urban teachers are required to commence on a Thursday or a Friday immediately preceding the Australia Day long weekend, meaning their working year is several days longer than their remote counterparts. 3) That the Department review the impact on staff, students and families of the change to a 1-3-2 school holiday structure since it commenced in 2018, with consideration given to returning to a 1-4-1 model of school holidays if this model is found not to be achieving its stated objectives. Wider consultation will take place once this phase is completed. The AEU NT advocated that the consultation this time follow a robust process and especially proper consultation with staff, unlike last time in which various proposals were voted on by the general public in an anonymous survey. Info on school term dates: https://nt.gov.au//primary-and-sec/school-term-dates-in-nt

02.01.2022 The first meeting of the Unions NT Women's Action Network is happening this Tuesday. Open to all women union members. Face-to-face and virtual options so you can participate no matter where you are in the Territory.

02.01.2022 AEU members converging on Parliament House. Fight the freeze and join us now!

02.01.2022 On World Teachers Day 2020, we salute the efforts of educators in ensuring the continuation of education for students in the face of a global pandemic. Give yourselves a round of applause