Independent Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, has backed the national For Every Child campaign by the Australian Education Union to secure the full funding of public schools by 2028. The…
“It’s unfathomable that PhD candidates are ineligible for Paid Parental Leave because their work is not included in the scheme’s current work test. PhD candidates and graduates make significant contributions…
Independent Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, asked the Minister for Education Jason Clare the following in Question Time. Please see above video for full question and response. “Minister you’d recall…
Independent Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, recently asked Education Minister Jason Clare the following question in Question Time. “The recent six hundred and fifty per cent increase in HECS-HELP indexation…
I have said from the start that I support the UTAS relocation so long as all reasonable community concerns are addressed. So far they have not been, as evidenced by…
Last week’s Tasmanian Budget contained some welcome funding. Alongside long overdue spending for education and youth, there’s important funding for legal aid services and mental health. As the Tasmanian Council…
Governments continue to show that they don’t understand the inherent value of education, nor that an educated population is smarter, richer, healthier and happier.
Free universal early childhood education is important for gender equality. But gender equality also needs to be in our DNA, with everything we say & do, and every policy &…
Opinion piece published in the Sunday Tasmanian 11 Oct 2020 It’s getting harder to find a real person to talk to these days at government agencies like Centrelink, Medicare and…