Education Minister, Opposition Clash Over Funding, Public Wage Cap

Education Minister, Opposition Clash Over Funding, Public Wage Cap
Minister for Education and Early Childhood Learning, Sarah Mitchell speaks during a press conference in Randwick in Sydney, Australia on October 18, 2021. Photo by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images
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The first debate between the two women competing for the education minister position in (New South Wales) NSW has been marked by the differences in how they plan to fund the sector, increase teachers’ pay, and address supply issues.

Opposition Education Minister Prue Car made it clear that if elected, Labor is going to scrap the wages cap for the public sector and replace it with an industrial relations bargaining system — a signature policy in Labor’s election campaign.

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