Jason Ardler PSM shared with our CEO David Riordan some unique insights on NAIDOC Week.   Discover Jason Ardler's perspective per below: Q1. Why is NAIDOC Week so important? What we now call NAIDOC began in 1938 with the declaration of a Day of Mourning, first observed on Australia Day to coincide with the 150th anniversary of white settlement. From 1955, Aborigines Day shifted to the first Sunday in July to become, not simply be a day of [...]

Emeritus Professor Michael McDaniel AO FRSN met with our CEO David Riordan to share his profound insights about NAIDOC Week.  Discover Emeritus Professor Michael McDaniel's unique perspective and wisdom in this enlightening discussion: https://youtu.be/BLIl1RPN4-A Michael McDaniel is a member of the Kalari Clan of the Wiradjuri Nation of Central NSW with a distinguished career in Indigenous higher education and record of service to the arts, culture and the community spanning more than three decades. Michael is a [...]

PEF Promotes Public Schools Public education has been one of the major headline items in the news in recent months with increasing pressure on governments to fund all schools to 100% of the Schooling Resource Standard (SRS). The SRS is an estimate of how much total public funding a school needs to meet its students’ educational needs. It is based on recommendations made in the 2011 Review of Funding for Schooling led by Mr David Gonski AC. [...]

The Australian Government is offering to provide free home internet for one year to 30,000 families around Australia with school-aged children that do not currently have an NBN broadband service. We have been asked to help identify families who are not connected to the NBN and help them apply for 12 months free internet. If you want to apply for free home internet and do not think you already have NBN: Complete this survey to give us permission [...]

Ruby Lyons-Reid is this year's recipient of the Public Education Foundations Teachers Health Early Career Scholarship. A Tasmanian teacher has been named as the recipient of this year's Public Education Foundation's Teachers Health Early Career Scholarship. Ruby Lyons-Reid teaches year 11 and 12 English, creative writing and Tasmanian Aboriginal studies for the Tasmanian E-School, an online and distance education provider for students from kinder to year 12. This scholarship supports public school teachers who are [...]