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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2024-10-16T14:15:00+10:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>55</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>1</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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  <dateModified time="2025-03-04T14:11:39+10:30" />
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    <name>Motions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Australian Education Union</name>
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        <heading>Australian Education Union</heading>
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      <text id="202410163989616709f44725a0001132">Adjourned debate on motion of Hon. R.A. Simms:</text>
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        <inserted>That this council—</inserted>
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      <text id="202410163989616709f44725a0001134">
        <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;Notes that the Australian Education Union (AEU) (SA Branch) took industrial action on 1 September 2023 in response to the Malinauskas government's enterprise bargaining offer.</inserted>
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      <text id="202410163989616709f44725a0001135">
        <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;Acknowledges that 80 per cent of AEU members who voted in the ballot to take industrial action voted in favour of doing so.</inserted>
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      <text id="202410163989616709f44725a0001136">
        <inserted>3.&amp;#x9;Calls on the Malinauskas government to commit to supporting South Australian public education by making an offer that meets the AEU's requests for—</inserted>
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      <text id="202410163989616709f44725a0001137">
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          <inserted>(a)&amp;#x9;reducing face-to-face teaching by 20 per cent to eliminate excessive and unsustainable workloads;</inserted>
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      <text id="202410163989616709f44725a0001138">
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          <inserted>(b)&amp;#x9;an additional school services officer in every classroom to provide school students with necessary learning support; and</inserted>
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          <inserted>(c)&amp;#x9;a salary rise of 20 per cent over three years to attract and retain public school educators.</inserted>
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      <text id="202410163989616709f44725a0001140">(Continued from 13 September 2023.)</text>
      <talker role="member" id="6802" referenceid="c1fd605273be4c058a02036c43289159" kind="speech">
        <name>The Hon. R.A. SIMMS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <startTime time="2024-10-16T22:56:27+10:30" />
        <text id="202410163989616709f44725a0001141">
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          <by role="member" id="6802" referenceid="c1fd605273be4c058a02036c43289159">The Hon. R.A. SIMMS (22:56):</by>  I move:</text>
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          <inserted>That this order of the day be discharged.</inserted>
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        <text id="202410163989616709f44725a0001143">Motion carried; order of the day discharged.</text>
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