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News for Tasmanian Teachers
Archive for September 2022
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CORONAVIRUS
NAPLAN
EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION
INDUSTRIAL ACTION
Stop-work meetings of
teachers around Tasmania this morning called for reduced
workloads, more resources and a better pay offer from the
state government.
AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM
CYBERSECURITY
WORLD NEWS
SPORT
CYBERSECURITY
CORONAVIRUS
INDUSTRIAL ACTION
WHALE STRANDINGS
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
CLIMATE CHANGE
3. Upskilling workers.
6. Ditching diesel.
DEATH OF QUEEN ELIZABETH
THE MONARCHY
WORLD NEWS
INTEREST RATES
NAPLAN
UK POLITICS
CORONAVIRUS
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
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The NAPLAN website has
published a list of new dates for 2023, the most significant
of which concern the change of NAPLAN testing from May to
March.
The Auditor-General, Rod
Whitehead, says the current government's reforms since 2014
lacked detailed planning but he acknowledged there had been
improvements in access, retention and attainment.
Awareness of the suffering
of Australia's Indigenous people, facilitated by
truth-telling, should be part of Australia's national
curriculum, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says. 
A person claiming to be the Optus hacker has
apologised to Optus, and has claimed that the downloaded
data has now been deleted. However, 10,000 data sets had
already been released.
Rumours that China's
President Xi has been arrested in a coup are puzzling
analysts who note there is a lack of the kind of
corroborating evidence one would normally expect during a
coup.
PCR testing at COVID
clinics at Hobart, Launceston, Burnie and Devonport will not
require people to book first from this Saturday, 24
September. 
Tasmanian government
schools will be closed on Wednesday 28 September "until
after 10.30am", the DoE says.
Just ten policies to
promote renewable energy and reduce emissions will enable
Australia to achieve climate change prevention glory, a
researcher says.
The Prime Minister, Anthony
Albanese, has announced that Thursday 22 September
2022 will be a one-off public holiday as
Australia's official day of mourning for the late Queen.
As King Charles lacks the strong popular support his mother
had, his accession may prompt more republican debates, an
academic suggests.
Queen
Elizabeth the Second, Britain's longest-serving monarch, has
died at the age of 96.
The Reserve Bank has raised
the cash rate for the fifth consecutive month, from 1.85 per cent to
2.35 per cent. This is the fourth 0.5 per cent rise in a row.
Liz Truss has beaten Rishi Sunak to become Britain's new
Prime Minister, replacing Boris Johnson.
The Southern Support
School's $8.25 million redevelopment has been completed,
education minister Roger Jaensch has announced.