Video Library

• Backwards with Tony Abbott - Election Ad28 July 2010

  Watch the AEU’s new ad on Tony Abbott’s plan to cut $3 billion in education and reduce the share of money to public schools. That will take Australia and our public schools backwards not forwards.

• NSW Governor Marie Bashir15 April 2010

  At the National Public Education Forum in Canberra in March 2010 NSW Governor Marie Bashir spoke of the importance of public education and how our future as a nation can only be assured by an unswerving commitment to maintain it at the highest quality. You can also read her speech.

• The Honorable Michael Kirby03 March 2010

  Former High Court judge Michael Kirby delivers a stirring defence of public education and calls for an end to its underfunding in this speech at Melbourne High School in December 2009.

• The value of public education - A student talks03 March 2010

  The school captain at Keira High School in NSW, Keziah Bennett-Brook, gives an insight into life in a public school today and explains why public education is so valuable for young people. She was speaking at the AEU’s federal conference in Melbourne in January 2010.

• Welcome to For Our Future16 February 2010

  Australian Education Union federal president Angelo Gavrielatos explains the importance of the campaign by teachers and parents for more resources for our public schools.