From Meanjin to Crikey, from an election featuring a “vacuum of ideas” to the erosion of trust in teachers, here’s some stimulating reads for your consideration.

Recent commentary and analysis about the biggest issue facing education staff.

The Mind Your Head campaign gives workplaces the resources they need to identify and address workplace mental health hazards.

Despite its complexity, and the insights into that complexity that parents in Australia gained while supervising remote learning over the past two years, teaching is often thought of as an “easy” job.

While we’ve had around 45 meetings with Catholic employers and have been pushing to get this done at a reasonable rate, progress has been slower than we would like.

Principals call for sweeping changes to address worsening levels of burnout, anxiety and violence being experienced by the profession.

National Close the Gap Day (NCTGD) is a national day of action to pledge support for achieving Indigenous health equality by 2030.

The Labour Day public holiday has its origins in one of the union movement’s most momentous victories.

Important educational research can’t be done through randomised controlled trials alone.

The #SafetyRespectEquity campaign was launched on the eve of IWD 2022 by a dozen female leaders including Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins with the release of a letter and video to the nation.

The Mind Your Head campaign gives workplaces the resources they need to identify and address workplace mental health hazards.

When surveyed about why teachers leave, salary did not feature in the top ten reasons. A loss of passion for teaching, stress and burnout, struggling to cope with their roles and a lack of connection with students were the most common reasons.

The final report of Quality Initial Teacher Education Review concludes that lifting top pay by $30,000 to $130,000 would make young high achievers 13 percentage points more likely to choose teaching as a career.

Important changes to COVID settings in Victorian schools have been announced by the state government.

This new Agreement does not cover our workplaces but sets a new benchmark in our bargaining with Victorian Catholic and independent school employers, so it’s important to understand what’s in it!

Flawed law bites the dust for now, after strenuous opposition.

Catholic schools in Tasmania have not ruled out the possibility of sacking or not employing teachers who openly identify as LGBTIQ+ if proposed changes to the Religious Discrimination Bill are passed.

In this news wrap, we’re concentrating on the big issues of the moment, because they’re too important to ignore. Religious Discrimination Bill, COVID. Workload and teachers shortages.

The IEU has recorded another major legal victory, with Peninsula Grammar agreeing to pay the wages of non-teaching staff who were stood down during the first COVID lockdown in 2020.