Education Minister, Opposition Clash Over Funding, Public Wage Cap
The first debate between the two women competing for the education minister position in (New South Wales) NSW has been marked by the differences in how they plan to fund the sector, increase teachers’ pay, and address supply issues.
Opposition Education Minister Prue Car made it clear that if elected, Labor is going to scrap the wages cap for the public sector and replace it with an industrial relations bargaining system — a signature policy in Labor’s election campaign.
Speaking at the Centre for Independent Studies’ education debate on March 14, Car said teachers should be able to negotiate for a pay increase “as opposed to an arbitrary cap that politicians put on them based on legislation.”…