All sectors Union Yarns: Improving outcomes for Mob 10 Apr 2025 As AEU’s First Nations organisers, we are making sure Mob voices are heard in the log of claims and broader schools-based planning.
All sectors From your president: Achieving together what you can’t achieve alone 26 Feb 2025 Better pay and conditions and more funding for members across early childhood, schools and TAFE is the union’s focus in 2025.
For everyone Union Yarns: Ensuring cultural entitlements for Mob 25 Feb 2025 The AEU made significant gains for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander members in the Schools Agreement. Now we’re working to ensure these entitlements are properly respected.
For everyone Creating history: the enduring legacy of the Yirrkala Bark Petitions 24 Feb 2025 In 1963, the Yolngu people presented a powerful challenge to government policies regarding their land rights via the Bark Petitions. Historian Clare Wright has written a riveting account of their legacy.
Schools Be the change: discovering books by First Nations women 24 Feb 2025 At Mac.Robertson Girls’ High, the Premier’s Reading Challenge became an opportunity to discover books by First Nations women.
For everyone Union yarns: Collective power and cultural safety 24 Feb 2025 This year’s First Nations Forum was a chance for Mob to share experiences and focus on building culturally safe workplaces for everyone.
For everyone Truth-telling and self-determination 9 Oct 2024 Ngunnawal woman Alinta Williams shared her story and perspective as a teacher and AEU First Nations organiser at the recent Yoorrook Justice Commission hearings.
For everyone Union Yarns: First Nations members – do you want to get active in your union? 7 Oct 2024 There are so many ways to get involved in First Nations business at the AEU. The first step is to meet our First Nations organisers, Alinta Williams and Frank Gafa.
For everyone Zeroing in on xenophobia 16 Jul 2024 The Jumbunna Report delivers truths about the treatment of First Nations educators, recommending much-needed anti-racism reforms.
For everyone Women’s matters: zero tolerance to gendered violence 16 Jul 2024 How many minutes of silence is enough to stop gendered violence in our workplaces?
For everyone Showing solidarity in NAIDOC Week 5 Jul 2024 This year’s theme ‘Keep the fire burning! Blak, loud and proud’ celebrates the spirit of Indigenous communities, and invites us to stand together in solidarity and amplify voices kept silent for too long.
For everyone Let them learn: inquiry into education for children in out-of-home care 18 Apr 2024 An inquiry into the educational experiences of children in out-of-home care has important recommendations for schools and the education department.
Schools The Living Classroom 8 Feb 2024 This year, one teacher has led students from Warrnambool College and Grasmere Primary School in a collaborative, hands-on project called The Living Classroom – and the results are nothing short of spectacular.
Schools ‘Deadly’ doors to reconciliation 8 Feb 2024 A trip to New Mexico was the spark for one primary teacher to connect with First Nations culture back home and develop her school’s Reconciliation Action Plan.
The Lowdown: United against division 5 Dec 2023 Large-scale global and political events can leave us feeling helpless as individuals. So, what can we do to move beyond despair and drive change for the better? MYKE BARTLETT has the answer.
For everyone Why our members are voting YES 4 Oct 2023 AEU branch councillors tell us why they are supporting the campaign for a Voice to Parliament for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples at the upcoming referendum on 14 October.
For everyone TV review: The First Inventors, SBS 3 Oct 2023 This eye-opening doco series with a big, generous heart should be mandatory viewing in all schools, writes STEPHEN A RUSSELL.
For everyone Setting the agenda 3 Oct 2023 We are focused on supporting and empowering members so that, together, we can advocate for changes that benefit us all.
For everyone One out of the box 3 Oct 2023 Online story-reading site Story Box Library features a growing collection of diverse and inclusive stories plus new educational offerings for teachers and students alike.
Early Childhood History is calling: Unions for Yes 23 Aug 2023 As unionists and educators, we have a big role to play in the campaign to support a Yes vote for the Voice to Parliament.