This story appeared in the March 2014 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.
Tributes continue to flow for a young teacher who died following a tragic footballing accident, as his heartbroken local club decides how best to farewell him.
The AEU Victoria branch has recommenced negotiations with the Allan Government on a new Victorian Government Schools Agreement (VGSA) for teachers, education support and school leaders in public schools, following the rejection of the proposed in-...
The Australian Education Union’s (Victoria), latest VGSA 2026 survey is intended to help shape the next phase of negotiations with the Victorian Government (Department of Education).
When I was a new teacher, my understanding of copyright law and how it related to my work was limited to a vague understanding of the ‘10 per cent or one chapter’ concept, and knowing there were different rules in a classroom compared to general s...
For 50 years, NAIDOC has celebrated the strength of our people. It honours the generations who protected our cultures, languages and law through every attempt to erase them. It carries forward the responsibility our old people accepted long before...
Far from simply a celebration, NAIDOC Week is more an invitation to engage with Aboriginal and Torrest Strait Islander history and consider what still needs to be done in our schools and across society.
Too young to have an Instagram account but old enough to be held in jail.
Children as young as 10 are routinely being tortured in Australian youth detention centres, according to rights advocates, as governments pursue more draconian punishments for young offenders.
As teenagers increasingly turn to artificial intelligence chatbots for advice about friendships, family conflicts and romantic ties, researchers are raising concerns that the technology could disturb how young people learn to navigate human relati...
The Grow into a Reader national literacy campaign has kicked off again for 2026, supporting The Pyjama Foundation and encouraging Australian families to nurture a lifelong love of reading.
