I am not a teacher, or close enough teacher's financial information to be able to say much very useful about Australian teacher's unions and their impact. But it certainly is fascinating to me how different the US and Canadian situations are, and I believe the Australian situation is quite different also.
I have long noted comments here about private school teachers generally being lower paid in the USA. That is certainly not the case here. Possibly in the catholic system, but not at "independent" schools.
There are certainly semi-regular discussions in the media / govt about how to raise the standard of teaching, how to attract a higher standard of student to B/Ed in the first place, etc. How to attract quality industry specialists to jump tracks and become teachers... Is it pay? Is it respect? etc.
