Education deserved a higher standard of debate and mature policy discussion this election.
The future of our nation’s schools and early childhood education services should be at the centre of the election campaign. Unfortunately, the limited references to education in policy debates rarely rose above teacher bashing and empty culture war sloganeering.
Dedicated education professionals striving to deliver a high-quality education for their students condemned the divisive and ill-informed comments made by the leader of the opposition Peter Dutton earlier in the election campaign. Rather than learn from his mistake, Mr Dutton instead chose to double down on his attacks on teachers and school leaders.
IEU members and their school communities deserved much better this election.
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