By Louisa Lawson Just before the 2025 school holidays a Public Education Workers Alliance meeting in western Sydney, heard a jaw dropping appraisal, Have I improved enough yet? Teaching and the labour process, about what students, teachers and NSW state schools face day to day, and why. https://pewapublications.wordpress.com/read-2/ The teacher, researcher, activist began, ‘Today I want to make a simple …

by Blake Sartori Alison Pennington, Gen F’D, How Young Australians Can Reclaim Their Uncertain Futures, $24.99. To tread the dangerous path of summarising a book in one word, let’s settle on disappointing. If Pennington succeeded in one aspect, it is demonstrating just how void the mainstream Australian left is today, and how much farther we have to go before any …