The Guardian • TAFE
Ever increasing precarity for public education amidst TAFE funding cuts and privatisation
The Federal Government continues to neglect public Vocational Education and Training, diminishing accessibility for many Australians.
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Issue #2018
Compulsory training of Australians should be condition for migrant hires
The Australian Workers’ Union is calling for a compact between employers and unions that would allow the hiring of migrants to address the skills shortage,...
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Issue #1989
Morrison gov’t punishes students
Australian students are yet again hit by repressive policies from the Coalition government.
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Issue #2054
Rebuild the vocational education system
After decades without a national plan, the creation of Jobs and Skills Australia sparks an ember of hope for the future of Vocational Education and...
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Issue #2101
People’s budget – Working class solutions
The 2024-25 Budget threw crumbs to workers, their families, the unemployed, and the environment while lining the pockets of fossil fuel corporations and the military-industrial...
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Issue #2093
TAFE teachers move towards stop work action, industrial bans
Victorian TAFE teachers are one step closer to industrial action – including possible stop work action – after an application for a protected action ballot...
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Issue #2102
EDITORIAL
Universities – Why you care This paper isn’t ‘the Workers’ Weekly’ for nothing. Workers produce all the wealth. Workers are the majority of the population....
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Issue #2051
Skilled Immigration: Must do better
The idea of skilled migration is deceptively simple. A lot of people in other countries want to live in Australia. We have to sort them...
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Issue #2168
DINGO
The Media Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) has joined with colleagues in Australia and Timor-Leste to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the ‘Balibo Five.’ Greg...
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Issue #2188
DINGO
Musicians from the West Australian Symphony Orchestra (WASO) have flagged growing concern over management’s refusal to stop a six-year-old recording of the ballet Dracula being...
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Issue #2100
More for war in a class budget
“In a cost-of-living crisis, the Labor government is choosing to remove $14.4 billion in funding from the NDIS that will lead to disabled people not...
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Issue #2126
Fee-free TAFE welcomed
The country’s largest union, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), has welcomed the Albanese government’s commitment to expanding fee-free TAFE courses. ANMF Federal Secretary...
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Issue #2144
CPA CC Statement on the federal election
The Communist Party of Australia welcomes the electoral defeat of Peter Dutton and the Coalition on Saturday 3 May 2025. It is clear the electorate...
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