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LEGAL LIABILITY
Can bullied students sue the school?
The Conversation (comment by Sally Varnham), 31 May 2019
 School inaction over bullying can make schools liable
for damages if the inaction causes harm, an academic writes.
 THE ECONOMY
RBA
cuts interest rates by 0.25 per cent
ABC News, 4 Jun 2019
The Reserve Bank of Australia
has reduced the official interest rate from 1.5 to 1.25 per
cent, the first change since August 2016..
AUSTRALIAN POLITICS
New shadow ministry announced
ABC News, 2 Jun 2019
 New Labor leader Anthony
Albanese has allocated his frontbench shadow portfolios.
 Former leader Bill Shorten will be
responsible for handling NDIS issues.
The shadow Education and Training
portfolio will remain with Tanya Plibersek...
 TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
JRLF farm site seems safe now
Tas Govt media release, 31 May 2019
The
site of the Jordan River Learning Federation school farm at
Brighton is not big enough to allow some of its land to be used
for the new Brighton High School, education minister Jeremy
Rockliff says...
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Counteroffer being prepared
AEU (Tas) website, 31 May 2019
 The AEU's drafting of a
counteroffer to take account of the widespread opposition to
relief teachers' pay loadings being reduced under the current
pay offer is now awaiting some information from the government,
AEU Tasmania President Helen Richardson says...
FEDERAL POLITICS
Albanese confirmed as Labor leader
ABC News, 30 May 2019
The Labor Caucus has endorsed its new leaders:
Anthony Albanese as leader
Richard Marles as deputy leader
Penny Wong as Opposition leader in
the Senate, and
Kristina
Keneally as her deputy...
SPORT AND RECREATION
Laser tag overkill?
TasLabor media release, 29 May 2019
 The Education Department's ban
on school excursions to laser tag activities is 'bureaucracy
gone mad', Opposition education spokesperson Joshua Willie says.
[Tas Laser Skirmish image]...
Laser tag business 'gobsmacked',
ABC Radio, 29 May 2019
Businesses outraged over laser tag ban,
The Advocate, 27 May 2019
UPDATE
3 Jun 2019: The ban on laser tag excursions has been overturned
by the Education Department (TasTV News, 3 Jun 2019)
STATE BUDGET REPLY
Greens list education priorities
Greens website, 29 May 2019 [pdf]
 Greens leader Cassy O'Connor has delivered the
Greens' alternative Budget which emphasises public education and
education standards, and includes provision for extra speech
pathologists, school psychologists and social workers, a Climate
Resilience program and civics education...
Greens Budget page
Greens Budget
[pdf]
Greens Budget media release, 29 May
2019
Anti-business but honest, Peter Gutwein, Treasurer, 29 May
2019
STATE BUDGET
Brighter future for students
Tas Govt media release, 29 May 2019
Planned
education spending in the State Government's Budget includes
provision for a Brighton High School, a Legana Primary School
and a K-12 school in Penguin, as well as school farm
redevelopments at Brighton and Sheffield, plus six new Child and
Family Centres, education minister Jeremy Rockliff says...
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Now a bid
to reject pay offer
ABC News, 29 May 2019
AEU Tasmanian president Helen Richardson says
she will now attempt to gain support to reject the previously
endorsed government pay offer because of the significant cuts it
imposes on relief teachers...
Members' support for pay
deal should be respected. Jeremy Rockliff, Minister for
Education and Training, 29 May 2019
STATE BUDGET REPLY
Mental health workers for all schools
TasLabor website, 28 May 2019
 State Opposition Leader Rebecca
White has delivered her Budget Reply speech, promising that all
schools would receive the services of mental health workers...
TasLabor media releases
Government has already committed $81 million to mental
health and wellbeing, Jeremy Rockliff,
Minister for Education, 28 May 2019
Free TAFE for 5,000 Tasmanians, Rebecca White, Opposition
leader, 29 May 2019
 FEDERAL POLITICS
New ministry announced
ABC News, 26 May 2019
Re-elected Prime Minister Scott
Morrison has announced his new ministry line-up.
Dan Tehan continues as education minister...
WEATHER ALERT
Cold
fronts loom
ABC News, 25 May 2019
Hail, snow, rain and winds are forecast for Tasmania from later
today through to Wednesday...
BoM
warnings
BoM forecasts
Road closures
(Police)
WORLD POLITICS
May to resign
ABC News, 25 May 2019
 British Prime Minister Theresa May will resign as
leader of the Conservative Party on 7 May but remain as Prime
Minister until a new leader is elected in June....
STATE BUDGET
State Budget delivered
Tas Govt, 23 May 2019
 The Tasmanian State Budget,
delivered by Treasurer Peter Gutwein today, provides $7.1
billion for education and training...
Budget speech [pdf]
Budget information
Treasury's Budget web page
Putting students first, Jeremy
Rockliff, Minister for Education and Training, 23 May 2019
Winners and losers, ABC News, 23 May 2019
Net debt to rise, ABC News, 23 May 2019
Cuts and salary caps overshadow education wins, AEU media
release, 24 May 2019
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Majority
support pay offer
AEU (Tas), 23 May 2019
The state government's pay offer
has been accepted by 70 per cent of teacher and principal
members, AEU Tasmanian president Helen Richardson says...
Teachers vote to support union pay deal,
The Examiner, 23 May 2019
 LABOR LEADERSHIP
Albo likely to be leader
ABC News, 23 May 2019
Today's news that shadow
finance minister Jim Chalmers will not contest Labor's
leadership means Anthony Albanese might be awarded the position
on Monday if no-one else nominates...
LABOR LEADERSHIP
Bowen withdraws
ABC News, 22 May 2019
 Labor Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen
has announced he will not now run for leadership of the Federal
Parliamentary Labor Party, leaving Anthony Albanese
the only declared candidate so far.
 Joel Fitzgibbon has
announced that he too will not run.
Jim Chalmers
is still considering his position...
BULLYING
Some anti-bullying programs can backfire
The Conversation (opinion by Karyn Healy), 20 May 2019
Some high school programs designed to reduce or
prevent bullying can actually make things worse, a researcher
says...
SCIENCE
New measurement definitions from today
The Conversation (opinion by David Brynn Hibbert), 20 May 2019
 New ways of defining kilograms, metres, seconds,
amps, moles and candelas, by using the laws of physics, came
into effect today, 20 May 2019...
The
International system of units (SI) web page
 LABOR LEADERSHIP
Plibersek rules out leadership bid
ABC News, 20 May 2019
Labor's deputy leader Tanya
Plibersek has ruled out running for the vacant post of Labor
leader, saying she is placing her family responsibilities first...
Albanese and Bowen main contenders for Labor leadership, ABC
News, 22 May 2019
FEDERAL ELECTION
LNP majority now predicted
ABC News, 20 May 2019
The ABC's election computer now
predicts the current Liberal and National Party coalition will
win at least 77 seats in the House of Representatives election,
giving it a majority of at least one even after electing a
Speaker...
NAPLAN
No NAPLAN
resits in Tas
ABC News, 19 May 2019
 Tasmanian students will not be asked to resit any
online NAPLAN tests that were disrupted by a computer glitch,
education minister Jeremy Rockliff says...
FEDERAL ELECTION
Coalition likely to be returned
ABC News, 17 May 2019
The LNP Coalition led by Prime
Minister Scott Morrison will be returned as the next Australian
government either in majority or in minority, ABC
 election analyst Antony Green
predicts.
Opposition leader Bill Shorten says he will stand
down as Labor leader...
Bass seat now "in doubt", ABC News, 19 May 2019.
UPDATE:
Bass no longer in doubt.
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Relief teacher payments fallout
ABC News, 17 May 2019
Hobart College and Elizabeth
College staff have passed a vote of no confidence in the AEU's
negotiating team over the reduction in relief teacher loadings
that is part of the proposed new salary agreement with the state
government...
 FEDERAL POLITICS
Bob Hawke dies
ABC News, 16 May 2019
Former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke has died
at the age of 89...
 TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Tasman upgrade complete
Tas Govt media release, 16 May 2019
A major upgrade costing $4
million at Tasman District School has been completed, education
minister Jeremy Rockliff says...
FEDERAL ELECTION
Education policies compared
ABC News, 15 May 2019
An academic compares the promises made in the education policies
of the two major parties...
NAPLAN
NAPLAN computer glitch
9News, 14 May 2019
Failure of the online NAPLAN testing system to work
smoothly means many students will be attempting their tests a
second time...
Return to paper and
pencil for NAPLAN test, ABC News, 15 May 2019
WA the state hit hardest
by NAPLAN computer glitch, ABC News, 15 May 2019
TASMANIAN POLITICS
Meg Webb the third LegCo winner
ABC News, 14 May 2019
Meg Webb, who has been a pokies reformer and
Anglicare employee, is set to be elected to the Legislative
Council for the seat of Nelson...
Legislative Council
results, Tasmanian Electoral Commission
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
8.5% pay offer looks to be a winner
AEU (Tas) website, 10 May 2019
The AEU will recommend that its
members vote to accept a new pay offer from the government for
an 8.5 per cent pay rise over three years for most teachers,
plus various improvements in conditions...
Government welcomes AEU
Executive's endorsement of pay offer, Peter Gutwein, Treasurer, 10 May 2019
Teachers set to accept pay deal, ABC News, 10 May 2019
LITERACY
$50 note spelling error
ABC News, 9 May 2019
Literacy standards must be falling after all. A
spelling error on the new $50 notes issued Australia-wide last
year has been picked up only this week.
 ROYAL BIRTHS
Meet Archie
ABC News, 9 May 2019
The new baby of the Duke and
Duchess of Suffolk will be named Archie Harrison
Mountbatten-Windsor..
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Opening at Lenah Valley
Tas Govt media release, 8 May 2019
A $3 million redevelopment at
Lenah Valley Primary School was opened today by education
minister Jeremy Rockliff...
THE ECONOMY
RBA leaves interest rates unchanged
RBA website, 7 May 2019
The Reserve Bank of Australia
has made no change to the cash rate, leaving it at 1.5 per cent...
FEDERAL ELEGGSION
PM attacked with egg
ABC News, 7 May 2019
The Prime Minister, Scott
Morrison, was hit on the head by an egg, which didn't break,
while attending a Country Women's Association gathering in
Albury, NSW, today...
 ROYAL BIRTHS
It's a boy
BBC News, 6 May 2019
The Duchess of Suffolk has given
birth to a boy, husband Harry has announced...
TASMANIAN POLITICS
Two winners so far in LegCo election
ABC News, 5 May 2019
Tasmania's Legislative Council election has seen
two members re-elected:
Labor's Jo
Siejka (Pembroke), and
the Liberals'
Leonie Hiscutt (Montgomery).
The result for the
third seat (Nelson) is unclear but a shift to the Left appears
to be favouring either Independent Vica Bayley
or anti-pokies reformer Meg Webb...
Legislative Council
results, Tasmanian Electoral Commission
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
AEU modifies wages demand
ABC News, 4 May 2019
The AEU will present the
government with a compromise offer on Monday in the hope of
achieving an early resolution of the current pay dispute...
PEDAGOGY
 What is inquiry-based learning? Expert tells
The Conversation (opinion by Gillian Kidman), 1 May 2019
Inquiry-based learning can help
prepare children for the real world, an academic says. (However,
numerous comments at the end of the article remind everyone that
explicit instruction remains an essential teaching method.) ...
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