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NAIDOC week 2025 will be celebrated from Sunday. This year is the fiftieth NAIDOC week. NAIDOC week is about allowing us all to “recognise and

In the middle of May, the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age had an in-depth piece in their Saturday Good Weekend magazines titled “Can we fix it?”

Last week I was honoured to be on a panel for the launch of the CIT 2025-2035 Strategic Plan. Other panellists included the Acting CEO of

Dr Jim Chalmers was clear post the election that productivity was going to be a focus for the next term of the Albanese government. Discussions

Today is Reconciliation Day and tomorrow will end the celebrations that have been occurring in TAFEs across Australia as part of National Reconciliation Week.

Today in the TDA Monday Newsletter I want to use my piece to acknowledge the extraordinary leadership of Mary Faraone (pictured right), CEO of Holmesglen

There is currently a lot of enthusiasm for the potential of vocational degrees. In their recent workshop presentations, AUSMASA has described vocational degrees as the

Join your TAFE colleagues, industry partners, government representatives, and other members of the skills and tertiary education environment in May next year at TDA Convention

The campaign to form the next Australian Government has concluded and we have voted. What a privilege it is to be able to choose our

TDA has promulgated for many years that a one-size-fits-all approach through training packages and competency based assessment is not necessarily serving all learners or all industries

The National TAFE Network is a reality. The Multilateral Agreement has the first five signatories, being the Commonwealth of Australia, NSW, Victoria, South Australia and

This week I attended the AVETRA 2025 conference to participate in a panel discussion on the rise of applied research in TAFE.

During the last week there has been much discussion about productivity. This is not an Australian phenomenon alone; every OECD country has had a decline

Tomorrow evening Dr Jim Chalmers, the Treasurer of Australia will deliver the final budget of this term of government. It will be interesting to see

In the recently released Strategic Review of the Australian Apprenticeship Incentive Scheme – Skills for tomorrow: shaping the future of apprenticeships, recommendation 6.1 highlights the need

My colleague Luke Sheehy, the CEO of Universities Australia, delivered a National Press Club speech on the last Wednesday in February. This was part of

Last Thursday I was very pleased to join colleagues from South Metro TAFE WA, TAFE NSW, TAFE Queensland, TAFE SA and Victorian TAFEs at the

The Revised Standards for RTOs are expected to come into full regulatory effect from July 2025. While there are some iterative changes to the Standards and