Education Minister addresses teacher shortage during Parliamentary Question Time

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NSW Deputy Premier and Minister for Education Prue Car delivers good news regarding teacher vacancies in regional, rural, and remote NSW. Video supplied

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00:00Deputy Premier, please update the House on the Minis Labor government's work to ensure

00:05children and families across the state have access to a quality free public education

00:11no matter their postcode.

00:12The cabinet last week was very proud to go to Barwon, to Broken Hill into Barwon and

00:19I spent some of my time over that few days meeting with principals and teachers of course

00:25in parts of the electorate.

00:28I'm pleased to inform the House that in that electorate vacancies are down 27% and I tell

00:33you that's going to make a hell of a difference in communities like that.

00:38In other parts of New South Wales, in Tadworth, vacancies are down, wait for it, 50%.

00:43How can you argue with the data that actually shows us that it's actually working?

00:52I really get that you want to drown me out on this issue because we can't succeed in

00:57New South Wales, but the numbers do not lie.

01:01The numbers don't lie, you're very sensitive about it.

01:04In Myer Lakes down 30%, in Dubbo down 22%.

01:08In fact, the media last week actually was running some stories about how Victorian teachers

01:17are actually coming into New South Wales tomorrow morning to be enrolled in regional New South Wales.

01:22And I tell you what, I tell you what, you know where they're working?

01:30They're working in Albury where their local member for Albury at the time said about our

01:36pay deal that it wasn't a good policy and it's not good government.

01:40Go and tell that to the teachers that had brought more teachers, the policy that brought

01:46more teachers to schools in that electorate.

01:50This is policy that is having an impact.

01:54It is meaning more teachers in front of our kids, which is better for our future.

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